J-man should remember this. For some reason I thought about this and found it on YouTube, and felt the hilarity needed to be shared. Enjoy!
There's only 40 fucking cases across US and people are already going apeshit? Here's a hint to not get the swine flu: before you pick your nose, bite your nails, or clean out your nasty ears with those filthy fingers you just rubbed all over some cart at the store, wash your damn hands. Hell, do it twice just to be sure. If you get sick, it's your own damn fault. Don't be lazy, be responsible. If you're too fucking lazy to not spend 20 seconds to wash your hands, then you deserve to get sick. This applies for any illness, not just this swine flu bullshit.
With all of this media coverage of plane crashes in recent times, you'd think these things are just dropping out of the skies left and right. The Hudson incident, that commuter turboprop crash in Buffalo, the Turkish Airlines crash last week. All of this got me thinking about the infamous safety lecture that you get at the begging of each flight, and a wonderful nugget of information I heard recently.
A few months ago I was flying back to Seattle on a Southwest Airlines flight. After boarding the plane and settling in they begin the safety lecture. Now I normally don't pay attention during any of this because I've heard it dozens of times before, however one thing caught my attention.
As our middle aged, slightly overweight, slightly mannish flight attendant Lisa finished yapping about seat belts, she blurted out the following: "While we don't anticipate a change in cabin pressure, in the event that it happens, an oxygen mask will drop down..."
Wait a minute Lisa! Did you just say that you aren't anticipating a change in cabin pressure? Exactly how long have you had this job. Not only do I anticipate that the cabin pressure will change, I demand that it do so. Gradually. At a predetermined rate, based on the rate of climb or descent of the aircraft. Are you trying to tell me that the laws of physics has changed?
I realize that the average person is pretty fuckin' stupid, but there's no need to dumb it down so much. I think that most of us can grasp the simple concept that the pressure can and does change, and what you're really talking about is a rapid decompression.
And if you are too stupid to understand that, then you deserve to die.
I've often purchased items on eBay and then changed my mind or just needed something to use once. No problem, I'd just sell it back, but the fees are becoming out of hand. They used to be negligible, but now every feature has a fee. Say you want to start the bidding low and put a reserve price to protect you. You save on the insertion fee but it would cost $2.00 for the reserve feature. List in two categories and the fee there is doubled. But what really bugs me is Pay-f'in-pal. People either pay you via instant transfer or by credit card. 4.9% fee on credit card payments. Bank payments are free to accept, but only if you have a personal type account. If you accept a credit paypment, then your account must be upgraded to a business type account. Then even instant transfers have a fee (although its a lesser fee). I asked paypal to downgrade me back to personal status and they said fine, but it can only be done one time. Well, the next payment I received put my total payments received that month over $500. Turns out if you make over $500 per month you must upgrade to a business account. So, now I'm back to business status. So I opened another paypal personal account for future transactions. I just put on my auction a message that I prefer instant transfers, but gladly accept good old money orders and cashiers checks. Mind you, the things I've been selling lately are mostly old things of my own such as CDs.