Pat's wet, yelling at shit

Yea… it’s been a while… bite me.

Ok, I had this thought the other day, I think it makes a lot of sense… When people ask “how was work?” or “how was your day?” they’re generally just being polite and don’t really care, they’re just putting it out there like a “have a nice day” the cashier always throws at you as you leave and forget about them. So if I had a shitty day at work, they definitely don’t want to hear about it, and really I don’t want to talk about it. Bitching about it doesn’t make me feel better, and listening to me bitch generally just brings people down, so there’s really no benefit to bitching about work. I think if more people adopt this and the “leave work at work” philosophy, we’ll all be happier as a whole.

That being said….

I’ve decided to start beating this dead hose again so I can bitch or yell about other random stuff, but not about work… for example…

On the drive home from work today, I think I got in a race with a pontiac montana… yea… a minivan… here’s the story

So I’m cruising home from work today and I came up to one of those intersections where one lane ends shortly after the intersection so you have to merge. I didn’t realize this as I pulled up to the red at the empty intersection and I stayed in the right lane. After a couple seconds, a 45-50ish year old guy pulls up in the left lane in a 2003ish pontiac montana, this was around the time I realize my lane ended. “no problem” I thought to myself “I’ll just giv’r a lil’ gas and pull into the left lane”. Light goes green and the montana’s half way throught the intersection, I give it a lil’ gas and go to pass him and he punches it! This immature SOB is trying to make me run out of road instead of courteously letting me in! (or just driving at a normal speed so I could merge) Traffic was in sight and my lane was quickly ending, so I let out of the gas and merged in behind him, where I stayed in traffic for the next 15 mins before we went our seprate ways.

Time to rant…

WHAT THE HELL… it’s not like he was in a hurry or something, (slow moving) traffic was in sight, what? are you just trying to prove to yourself that you’re still cool cause your minivan can beat a 20 year old, beat up looking truck? It’s still a fucking minivan! I don’t get it… I used to get small joy out of doing that to ricers when I was in my minivan (and 16!), but I think we can all agree that my truck does not look like a “race car”  ALSO.. you’re old! grow the fuck up. This freaking jerk tried to make me run out of road for absolutely no reason, I don’t get it. At first I thought he was just accelerating a little quicker than most, but I could hear his engine revved right up…

now for the hell of it, let’s compare some specs

Him:

2003ish Pontiac Montana

3942 lbs

170-185HP & 210 ft-lbf

Me:

1989 GMC Sierra

4220 lbs

175 HP & 290 ft-lbf (claimed original specs.. mine are nowhere near)

+15 years “experience”

Which vehicle do you expect to be faster?… no matter who the driver is, they’re both automatic transmissions… anyways, I’m bored so I’m done.(happy now Danielle?.. yea I called you out)

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4 fucking goalies!?

all the cool kids were making trade deadline posts so I felt the need to join in….

Why does Toronto need so many damn goalies? We have Cujo for fuck’s sake, what more could you want? Fuck Gerber, Fuck Toskala, Fuck Kolzig, Fuck Pogge, PUT CUJO IN!!!!! We’re not making the playoffs, just let him play dammit.

that is all.

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Blow me Oshawa

FUCK YOU BY-LAW… ok, with that out of the way, time to rant.

Oshawa is falling apart. The city has one thing going for it right now, and that’s the University and College (one thing.. you don’t like my logic, shove it). The one bright thing in Oshawa’s future, the thing that’s actually drawing people to the city and even generating a positive buzz about the city. The one thing to draw attention from cutbacks, layoffs and deportation of jobs to Mexico. As much as I like GM, the plant isn’t exaclty going to bring us out of the crappy state this city is in. Anyways, enough about that, onto the people being drawn to the city. These people would be the 18-20somethings that come to the school to get an education. The people that come here and drop about $20,000.00 each year to pursuit knowledge in the subject of their choice, while living in this city, paying rent, buying food basically just dumping their wallets into the local economy. Now, if I were an astute resident of this fine city, I would be thinking “great, let’s bring more people here!” as we all know, that’s hardly the case and it is usually much more like “those hooligans can’t live here, they’re heathens, with their consumption of alcohol, sexual behaviour and general heathenism!”. riiiiiight

So now every non-student in oshawa has jumped on this anti-student bagon (thank’s Casey for the word “bagon”). Seeing as we’re not real people anyways, we now have to register ourselves witht the SS errr by-law office so they can keep an eye on us. That’s cool, when do we get our armbands?… we’re safe as long as we wear them and keep our papers with us right? I know this is nowhere near as bad as what I’m referencing it to, and I hope to God it never happens again, but it is a similar behavior, if it wasn’t cool then, why is it cool now?

Anyways… By-Law likes to play a little game called “let’s see what kind of tickets we can give to people with DC/UOIT markings on them” I used to have a UOIT sticker on the window of my chariot, that was until I picked up on their little game. By-law likes to patrol our street, chalking tires and giving tickets for whatever they can, as long as the vehicle is in front of a student house. Saturday, we got one for blocking 100% of the sidewalk while parked on our boulevard, the guy down the street parked in the same manner got nothing (there was clearly room to get by, the sidewalk wasn’t blocked). Monday comes and we get another ticket for parking on the boulevard, again, nobody else on the street has a ticket, now I’m pissed off and too frustrated to study for my midterm. Tuseday comes and our next-door neighbour is parked in front of our house (instead of his own for some reason), fine, he’ll get a ticket, he’s been there more than 3 hours, that’s ticketable, also he’s within 2 meters of a driveway, and his right tires are probably more than 2 feet away from the curb due to our wide snowbanks because of people parking on the road, hell he’s even obstructing a snow plow should it come! Funny, no ticket yet, we’ve gotten tickets for all these things (minus the plow one, we’re not that dumb) ohhh right, he’s a cop… now that I think about it, I haven’t seen him get a ticket all year, even on days when we’ve gotten them… oh well, he’s doing a service to us… now what about the rest of these schmuck’s?

We’ve had our road blocked due to people parking on both sides and leaving a 4 foot gap in the middle, bylaw comes out and makes a bs excuse not to give a ticket, likely because the 2 vehicles weren’t stereotypical student vehicles. I have no problem with getting a ticket if I deserve it and am being treated fairly. This whole “justice for all” bullshit is bugging me though, if everybody on my street got tickets when by-law came around, I would be happy, but this is just unacceptable. By-law partols specifically student neighbourhoods, targeting our kind (yeah, our fucking kind, substitute any race for “student” in the proposed bylaws and see what you get), I have followed them around before, it took quite a bit of following, and until they knew damn well i was following them for them to even bat an eye at an illegally parked car.

Back to what I was getting at… (this kind of transition is why my english teachers hated me)… How can Oshawa expect people to want to live here when the city is constantly trying to get them to leave for the duration of their education? I certainly will not work in a city where I’m not welcome, I have absolutely no intention of staying in this city any longer than I have to to complete my education. My theory is that they know damn well that nobody actually wants to live in Oshawa, they’re just getting as much out of us as they can while we’re still here.

/rant

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Dammit Paul!

When you get up in the morning and take a shit, turn the fan on you fuckin’ jerk!

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ONE MORE DAY!

What the hell is this? Our reading “week” includes a stat holiday? It’s not a reading week, it’s a reading 4 fucking days! WHAT THE FUCK? If you’re going to bless us with a week off in the middle of a semester, don’t give us 4 days +1 that you have to give us and pass it off as a week! This is bullshit! BULLSHIT!!!!! The college gets a 4 day week this week and then their reading WEEK is next week, that’s right, those slackers over at the college get a real week off, are they somehow better than us and deserve the full week? This is bullshit, I’m going to write my MP… you should too!

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p.s. Another reason why I hate “family day”… what about those of us that can’t spend the day with our family? huh? Bite me Lieutennant Governor Helen Hunley.

p.p.s. For some reason I don’t get paid extra for that August long weekend cause my employer pays extra on family day instead, what the fuck? (I don’t know if he’s bullshitting me or not, but I blame the Government)

p.p.p.s. now I am done ranting.

AND ANOTHER THING…

To my fucking neighbours who still didn’t shovel their sidewalks despite it being a balmy +5 Celsius here this weekend, PUT SOME SALT DOWN FOR FUCK’S SAKE!, the cowpath has now become a skating rink, somebody’s going to get hurt, and I hope it’s you.

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What a terrible fucking system.

When you are a professor, you have two parts to your job: your research and teaching your students. Unfortunately for many students, professors are often hired for their research and then the teaching is an afterthought. Seeing as these are some of our brightest minds, teaching something so menial as mechanical vibrations should be no task for these scholars right?

You couldn’t be more wrong. Just because you’re fucking brilliant doesn’t mean you can express and verbalize you knowledge to somebody with no understanding of the subject. During my 2 and a halfish years at our prestegious university I’ve had many profs and TAs who couldn’t teach worth shit. For some, it was due to a language barrier (wtf is arfa anyways?, seriously though, Yoda is the man.) but some just can’t fucking teach. (nothing against people with accents, but some people you just can’t understand and probably shouldn’t choose a career based on public speaking… just sayin’)

Maybe its just me and I’m a terrible student and couldn’t learn if I tried, but when you go to class for an hour and 35 minutes (classes are supposed to be an hour and 20 mins) to frantically take notes while johhny combover scribbles some random shit on the board, barely explaining it while blocking what he’s writing with his body seems like no way to learn. This fucking guy, we’ll call him Esmerelda, just starts spewing equations all over the 3 boards for the full duration of lecture and then some, switching places and erasing shit so often that you have no idea what you’re taking notes on by the end of class. He has yet to end a lecture on time, hell the only way he ends close to on time is when we all leave while he’s talking.

There is no way anybody can take notes for an hour and a half and still have any concentration left for other lectures during the day let alone get through this one lecture. Our school is a laptop university. That means that every student has a fucking laptop (again, I’m oozing with glorious tidbits of info) and that our classes are supposed to utilize said laptop. Every prof and TA has a tablet style laptop and can write their notes directly onto the projector screen and save it in a nice pdf file to distribute to us, leaving us free to take notes on what we think is pertinent to the class, while listening to LETURE, then download the full notes at our leisure. Instead, Esmerelda, whom I’m going back to calling johhn combover from now on, insists that we write till our goddamn arms fall off without actually teaching us anything, if he prepared the lectures on his computer beforehand, we could spend our time learning instead of writing!

Anyways, moral of the story, Johnny Combover - learn to teach, Our Glorious University - do auditions or something for the job, we need more profs who can teach.

I know that’s not really a moral, bite me. I’m fucking done, and no I didn’t preview or proofread, I’m a fucking engineer, that’s the computer’s job.

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It’s been one week since you looked at me,

-Cocked your head to the side and said “I’m angry”

Yea, its been a week, bite me.

First of all, to my neighbours… and your neighbours… and whoever the hell else doesn’t get this concept… when it snows, shovel your damn sidewalk. I don’t mean while its still snowing but once it accumulates. When you just leave the snow on the sidewalk cause you’re too busy learning to use a frickin shovel, while trying to dig out your fuckin’ Lexus, it gets trampeled down by the people who use the sidewalk. Then when you’re out doing lexus things in your car which you run into the snowbank repeatedly cause you don’t know how to drive in snow, the trampeled down snow freezes, and turns into a bumpy cowpath for those people who still insist on walking to where they’re going. Then next time when it snows, and you still haven’t learned to use a damn shovel, there’s a bumpy cow path under a misleadingly smooth blanket of snow. I hope somebody falls and sue’s your ass…

Better still, I hope you fall.

To the wonderful city that we live in - think about where the most people walk, and plow there first, oh wait, you thought about it and realized it was the people you don’t want living there… nvm, my bad.

And another thing…. don’t block the damn sidewalk with your frickin car, go park in front of 103, they love it when you do that, so much that they yelled for joy last time I did it.

I’m trying to keep this short, there will be another one shortly cause I ain’t done yet.

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Dear Thusday,

I hate you, the only thing you have going for yourself is hockey. Please go away.

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