Colorado Mammoth Message Board

The new and inventive ways that advertisers are coming up with essentially still hitting you with pop ups in their banners on web pages.

Say youÂ’re on a page. You have something towards the top of the page you want to click on that is located under a banner for Gillette Monkey Shave. You have no interest in finding out how smooth your monkey can be with these now micro enzymes that take care of all the fleas, ticks, and stuck on feces in the monkeyÂ’s hair while energizing and smoothing his supple red @$$.
So, to continue on your mission of clicking a link below the banner, you move your cursor up towards your intended target and what the $#!@ happens? The damn Monkey Shave ad expands and you end up clicking on the $#@!ing thing that opens up another $#@!ing window flooding you with $#@!ing information and what not on the product you had no $#!@ing inclination to research in the first $#@!ing place...

That, and traffic. Those two things piss me off.

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I hate those rollover ads too. The ones in Hotmail have a glitch and get stuck open so you can't even use your email.

Hotmail still exists...?

Yeah, although they call it LiveMail or something now. I have no clue. I probably have about 20 different email accounts that I regularly use.

Nothing is free my freind.

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Round 2 of what pisses me off.

So, no doubt youÂ’ve all heard of the new G1 phone from Google coming out in about a month. IÂ’m pretty excited. I have T-Mobile and was thinking of possibly picking this phone up as the advertised price was $180 with a 2 year extension. Here I was, dumbass olÂ’ me, assuming that this would apply to existing customers if theyÂ’re willing to re-up for 2 years.
I login to my T-Mobile account and click on the upgrade phone tab to see if itÂ’s listed on my available upgrades.
Sure is!
But, this is where my anger goes from 0 to 60 faster than it does when I see Tom Sutton step onto the Pepsi Center floor.
For me to get it, being they loyal T-Mobile customer IÂ’ve been for the past 4 years, IÂ’d have to get the mandatory 2 year extension AND shell out $299.99.

$#@!ing.
Tossers.

The lot of ‘em.

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There was one story recently of a guy who picked up the newer iPhone - having received the nice existing iPhone/AT&T customer discount. A couple of days later, he was mugged and the new iPhone was stolen.

So what did he get for being a loyal customer when he went to Apple & AT&T about it? Sure, he could get a new iPhone... at full price.

Ahh, customer service at its finest!

So, IÂ’m leaving the gym this morning. I get done at about 7:00 every morning and leave the parking lot headed east. This, of course, allows sun-glare to play a wonderful game of Gouge Hot Needles into My Eyes with my vision.
Normally, since itÂ’s hard as hell to see more than a few feet in front of me, I let the engine idle take me through the parking lot so I donÂ’t take out someone crossing in front of me to get to Albertsons. Plus, I know thereÂ’s 2 stop signs in my way for pedestrian traffic, so I keep an eye out for that as well.

Now comes what the airline industries like to call a “near miss”. Some stupid-ass jamoke has parked his truck next to the curb in from of the donut shop in this little strip mall. Now, I can’t confirm this at this point, but I’m pretty sure it says “NO PARKING” along the curb right there as the two traffic takes up 3/4 of the available road space and parking there does a handy little job of screwing up the flow.

IÂ’m currently doing my less than moving the needle speed through the parking lot and am forced to veer quickly to the left to avoid rear ending this jagoff who decided the parking spot 10 feet away was a little too far for him to work.

Of course, as IÂ’m driving by, I look up at the driver, shake my head in bewilderment, and keep driving.

Suddenly, the truck comes to life and decided to follow me out on to Colorado. After a while of tailgating me (which for some reason caused my foot to slip from the accelerator) this guy shoots around me, slows long enough to look over at me and mouth something (not much of a lip reader on my best of days, but I think he at least mentioned something about a duck and a female sheep).

Due to our speed and spot lights, we were neck-to-neck several times. Each time, this 40+ year old salt and vinegar bag was looking over at me, shaking his head and grumbling something.

I had the last laugh, however, as one of his mad dogging fests forced him to slam on his brakes before he almost rear-ended someone stopped at a light. I just pointed and laughed at him.

Sadly, that was the later interaction with him this morning. Maybe heÂ’s a regular to the donut shop and if I time it right, we can do this all again tomorrow.

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Mr. Ronin

I am sorry. I didn't realize that was you. I too was suffering the effects of the sun burning the retinas of my eyes. (I am still feeling the effects of sun blindness).

Had I know it were you, I would not have made your life so miserable this morning.

...since when did you drive a big white pick-up and look like some skeevy old white dude sporting a baseball cap and a bushy mustache?

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Hey, I am trying to make some changes so I can get that better job.

Now now... Ronin, lets take a look at this from Mr. Skeevy's side.
You're depressed cause you're middle aged and you have to spend $164 to fill up the gas tank in your useless over-sized truck that hasn't had anything in the bed except beer cans in over 3 years so you head to the donut shop before work. You know you're only gonna be a couple minutes so you park right in front, (besides you're not capable in maneuvering your behemoth into a regular sized parking space). When you come out you see some scruffy looking nerf herder rolling past, nearly hitting my precious "***" and he's got the audacity to shake his friggin head at ME?!? THAT's IT! I'm gonna follow him and make my pitiful self feel better by driving like I have the right to, despite I'm nearly hitting old ladies etc and I'm gonna tell that nerf herder what I think even though neither of us have our windows down and I really know that if there was a physical confrontation I would likely crap myself and have a heart attack from my many years of donut consumption and dipping my frenchfries in lard.
Ah, now I've told you what I think of your stupid head-shake and I can go about my day and tell the next guy what he's doing wrong.

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Mammoth Hooligan

Uh huh

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No one's taller than
the last man standing.

Well, I figured that now that I'm moved into the new place and am really getting the desire to start rolling again, I should drop a few pounds and work on building my shoulder back up.
If it slips out while throwing a lacross ball every now and then, I don't want to think whats going to happen if someone is yanking on it.

I was a little b*tch this morning and didn't go because I stayed up watching the OSU/USC game last night and slept through the first few alarms, but I'm getting up on Saturday and going to make up for it.

So yeah, in closing, thanks for beeing a dick.

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God I hate you...

And for the record, yes, it is a yellow marked fire lane this doofus was parked next to.

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Traffic!!!!

Good god, what is wrong with the people in this state!?!? 3 miles of 4 lane highway can come to a crawl because someone is changing a tire on the shoulder that happens to be at least 10 to 15 feet away from traffic. IÂ’m all for safety, but if someone happens to get hit under that situation, IÂ’m a firm believer that hey, youÂ’ve got a phone call waiting for you at the pearly gates.

No good rubbernecking duck $#@! sanitation napkin having swamp $#!er sasquatch lookinÂ’ $#@!$#@#!@#$!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!

AnywayÂ…how you guys doinÂ’?

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You know, Having moved away from Denver I can now decidedly say that Denver traffic is singularly sucky. I live about 12 miles from my job and it takes me 15 minutes to get to work, In Denver it would take 45 minutes, All I can say is set up a cot in your cubical so you no longer have to deal with traffic.

I dunno. NYC traffic made me greatly appreciate Denver traffic.

Traffic in Honolulu is really bad cause the highway system was built by Helen Keller! And L.A. traffic was the worst I've ever been in. At midnight it as bumper to bumper on a Wedsnesday night!