PASabreFan
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Overuse of hysterical adjectives like "shameful". Crosschecking was a frequent perpetrator of this horrendous crime against humanity.
Well, if using kids with cancer to sell hockey tickets isn't shameful, I don't know what is. I choose my words carefully. I don't blame the players at all. I blame the marketing snakes who say, "Ya know what would be a great idea?"
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This always bothers me. Please, when the Sabres go visit the sick kids in the hospital, leave the cameras behind. Every time. I understand that the players often go without cameras. I really do. It's great. But one trip into the hospital for the shallow purpose of promoting the team to the public (in the coldest analysis, to sell sh*t like tickets and jerseys) is one trip too many. I guess the argument can be made that publicizing the trips increases giving to the hospitals. If that can be proven, I will tolerate the cameras. Otherwise, I find it shameful.
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Health insurance companies. Pure evil. Enough said.
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My daughter is in 9th grade now and this has been a beef of mine for several years running.
She'll make it to 10th eventually. You gotta believe.
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Misery loves company, no matter how much you try to tune them out. (This is especially true with one of the most prolific posters here on SS.)
Finally, someone has the nerve to go after inkman. Well done, sir.
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I'm tired of dealing with jackass part-timers at work who do nothing but be miserable all the time and try to pull people down to their level of misery. If you hate it here so much, just frigging quit, stay home and be miserable there.
Good thing you're not miserable.
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You mention your job a lot on Thursdays? Do you hate it? You don't have to answer. I was just curious.
My complaint is about the administrators at the school I teach at. They're always in support of the parents and students, but they rarely support or defend the teachers. Due to no child left behind, teachers are becoming puppets for the education system. We're losing the ability to elaborate on certain topics and get the students interested in the material we are discussing. State testing is hurting our education system, not fixing it. I am losing my interest in teaching fast.
thanes, I always tell this story about being in elementary school in the 40s. OK, 70s. I have a reputation to uphold.
In fourth grade, we were studying skeletal systems. So for lunch one day we didn't go the cafeteria. The teacher bought us lunch and we ate in the room. Fried chicken from this popular local place. Hot rolls. Cole slaw. Fries. The whole nine yards. As we finished our pieces of chicken, we were told to study the bones, work with our neighbors to reassemble the chicken. We had no idea we were learning! It would never happen today. I'm sure some kid would be a vegan and another would be allergic to grease or something.
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My complaint is a man with the name of Obama is actually being considered to run this country..What is wrong with this picture....
Besides you?
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I rest my case.
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Well, my complaint is in response to your complaint. You can thank this guy not only for attempting to ruin our country, but also for killing several other countries' currencies. Ask the Brits. They know this all to well.
Why the US government doesn't deport this Commie nutjob is beyond me. At least the ChiComs had enough sense to ban him from doing business in their country back in 1999. Everywhere he goes to do business, he leaves behind a trail of destruction and millions suffer as a result of it. This guy has absolutely no remorse. AFAIAC, Obama is only his marionette.
Don't just look at the surface. Look at the root cause.
I don't care why the crisis happened. I'm talking about McCain's response. Suspending the campaign, but not really, and going back to Washington -- to do what? -- and being all over the place on the issue during that time period was not comforting to a lot of people.
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and I believe you are a .
Wanna get together?
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John McCain. Dude, the war's over. Relax. The guy's got a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. I think more than anything, the reason he lost a slight lead in the polls and now appears to be heading for a pretty healthy loss is that people started to see an erratic character responding to the financial "crisis." Meanwhile, Obama is calm and cool and collected under pressure.
My other complaint is the debris bananas leave on your hands. You ever have that problem, Spendcheese?
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Non-believers.
Being a real fan often means questioning your team, and doubting.
I believe... you are a penis.
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Can you at least attempt to taper the blacktop around the manhole.
That's what she said.
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What? Where am I? Who stole my false teeth?
Last time you found them in Esther's honey pot!
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And you wonder why you get all those old man jokes around here. But yeah, that's me too. I'm ready to complain all week, but then when thursday roles around, its close enough to the weekend that I've run out of ideas. Luckily the stick swinging incident I mentioned earlier is still very fresh in my memory.
Who are you?
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Finally for today: David Letterman - I'm all for comedy but the guy should stick to his political wit in his opening monologue - if he wants to talk politics during his whole show, he should resign & go on CNN
I'm with you on Dave. I grew up adoring the man. He's become an embarrassment. You can't escape the partisanship even on late-night TV comedy. Dave's as dumb as a doorbell. I've been disappointed to discover this the last couple of years.
I also want to complain about my memory. All week long I file away complaints for Thursday. Now I can't remember any of them.
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Pizza delivery guys expecting huge tips piss me off. I got a pizza delivered to my house last Friday night. The place offers a $1.50 coupon and a free delivery coupon (worth $2) that says right at the bottom of it "Can be used with any other offer or coupon". The total (before coupons) comes to $14.60. I give the guy $15 and the coupons. That is a $4 tip. The guy acts like I kicked his dog. The only thing I can think of is he has a stack of coupons in his car that he turns in to the restaurant when customers dont use them, pockets the difference, and gets mad when people actually use the coupons.
P.S. Don't expect a bigger tip if you deliver my pizza in a 14mpg truck. I didn't ask you to, and my pizza isn't going to taste any better because you did. :nana:
Unless you like Inkman's special sauce.
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The amount of respect I have for you is dwindling. You might as well wake up in the morning and ask someone to #%^$#! in your mouth.
Like I said, I don't like his politics, but I find the site useful. I know what I'm doing. I only read it for the articles. Trust me babe.
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I rise to whine about the Drudge Report. I know he's just another right-wing media hack, but I go to the site anyway because he collects a lot of interesting news links. I can't find anything quite like it elsewhere online, kind of like The Sabres Report here.
But Drudge is really testing my good will. He very nefariously slips his bias into his headlines, a lot of times tweaking the actual headline just enough to make a political point. The other day, I noticed a link on Drudge that said Obama had gotten 60% of press mentions to McCain's 40%. A lot of people merely skim Drudge to get their news and never go to the linked sites, and Drudge knows it. So the message was pretty clear: the media is biased towards Obama.
Going to the story, however, here's what we find out:
"Obama had 54,624 mentions (in the press), or a 60% share, during the Democratic convention time period tracked, compared to McCain's 36,771 mentions, or 40%, in the same timeframe."
No sh*t!
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(OT) Happy Birthday SDS! Hope you're :beer:
How many birthdays does this guy have?! It's like three times a year.
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WTF is up with the secret code words on the ticketmaster website. I understand the need to have them, but do you have to make them so difficult to read that you can't even figure out what the letters are? :angry: :angry: :angry:
for example what is that supposed to be on the right?...
Thank you! I thought it was just me.
I also want to complain about soggy, undercooked pizza. I can't seem to avoid it anymore. Even when I ask for crispy, well-done or dark pizza, it ends up mush. I have to pay for a pizza and then bake it myself!
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You know what else really Grinds My Gears? You, America. F :censored: You!
EDIT: :oops: Don't know why the quoted post didn't show up the first time. Sorry!
Let me help you out with that.
http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG...nia%2C%20Mexico
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It's not yelling per se, it's a recorded message that has the volume cranked up more than a normal human voice - like those annoying TV commercials that come on blaring during breaks.
You mean like the ones with
BILLY MAY!?
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My complaint a few weeks ago was "insurance companies." It still is. I thought I would elaborate a bit.
My mom -- 81 -- has non healing wounds on her foot (poor circulation, diabetes and we just found out her one wound is infected, even the underlying bone). Hyperbaric oxygen treatments are proven to help these wounds heal. You get in a chamber and breathe a high concentration of oxygen for a couple of hours, but you have to do it two hours every day for six weeks.
The closest center to us is only a half hour away, but... wait for it... it's out of her network. The closest in network place is over two hours away. Not a long trip really, but when you have to do it every day, it's a terrible burden, especially if you can't tolerate even short trips due to leg problems. And even though gas is down, it still adds up.
Out of network, her insurance will pay 80%, which sounds OK, but when you consider how expensive they are, and how many treatments she needs, it's just impossible for her.
We've heard insurance companies will, in situations like ours, cover out of network providers at 100%. So far we can't even get the insurance company to acknowledge that this is possible. It should make sense from their point of view. For what would be a very small payout (to them), they can avoid all kinds of expensive events in the future -- hospitalizations, surgeries, very likely an amputation, in home health care, physical therapy, maybe prosthetics and on and on.
The company does everything in its power to put enough roadblocks in the way so that you give up. I've talked to 15 different reps. When I ask for the rep I spoke to last time, they say they can't connect me. I have to start all over. I get phone numbers to call that are completely bogus. They routinely put me on hold for 10 minutes. I swear it's to get me to hang up. 15 different reps, I bet I've had 10 different stories about how things are supposed to work. Appeal? There's nothing to appeal because nothing has been denied.
The doctor's office gets the same treatment. I asked the girl how older folks manage all this when no one is working on their behalf. She said, bluntly, "they don't."
Oh well, just a rant to make me feel better. I thought possibly someone here maybe works in health care or had a success story in dealing with insurance companies and might have some advice.
I really hope no one else on here is dealing with family medical problems. I know a lot of you are. My thoughts are with you -- and, God, I hope no one's child is seriously ill. As frustrating as the Sabres have been, at least they're a good diversion.