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[Mindmaker]

Jesus, there are even annoying elitists on bay12...

[Rose]

You just don't like that we're better than you.

[Mindmaker]

Even though there are a lot of people better than I, elitists don't belong to them.
/ignore sarcasm

[Nadaka]

The Institute for Policy Studies released a report Wednesday that shows many large companies pay more to CEOs in compensation than they did in corporate income taxes to the federal government in 2010.

And astonishingly, the report found that the gap between CEO and average U.S. worker pay rose from a ratio of 263-to-1 in 2009 to 325-to-1 last year.

[Grimshot]

Ugh, FUCK. I just spent 5 minutes trying to unscrew a jar of pickles with all my might. I was turning the lid the wrong way . God, I am fucking stupid sometimes.

[Virex]

Be happy you didn't succeed. Would've been rather difficult to close the jar again...

[PyroDesu]

Missed my bus stop.

Because I was asleep...

Maybe two cups of tea next time, so I have some caffeine.

Luckily it was a school bus, so he went back to my (not very far) stop.

Still....
RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

At my incompetence.

Seriously, I've been riding that same bus a year and a half now...

[Urist Imiknorris]

Wait, did you fall asleep on the bus?

[PyroDesu]

Yes.

How, I don't know, considering how loud people on there are.

[nenjin]

That why I loved my bus driver. He'd never hesitate to tell kids on the 5pm bus to shut up so everyone who had been working all day could catch their ZZZs.

[Aqizzar]

I just got back from a two-hour drive around downtown Dallas.  It started when I needed to cross town to my barber.  The highway is always bad during the day, but today it was totally stopped, so I committed to take the backstreets - a plan that always sounds great in theory and never ever works.  Part of it is my own fault, because I've lived in this city as long as I've had a license and never learned half the streets, but whatever, I made it in good time (less than the highway usually takes).

I go the barber, and find out the receptionist actually scheduled me for next Friday, and everything is booked up.  Oh good, I get to spend another week looking like Al Sharpton stuck his finger in a toaster.  Fine, I'm not going to die from bad hair.

I then uptown to do some light shopping for Dad's birthday.  Driving back from uptown Dallas to South Dallas circa 4PM before a holiday weekend was the suicide pact.  Turns out, every highway was backed up solid due to a dark miracle of major accidents on every one.  Backstreets ho.  In the course of taking a hour to get across town, I confirmed three things I have long suspected.

One, the traffic light patterning of Dallas is intentionally designed to cause traffic jams.  You couldn't arrange a better way to impede the efficient flow of traffic if you tried, which can only mean they did.

Two, if you try to back out of a parking space into flowing traffic, or make a U-turn on a busy road, you deserve anything that happens to you.  And if you're going to take the plunge, fucking commit to it; you're already making a huge mistake and pissing off dozens of people, don't compound the problem by chickening out halfway through.

And three, I need to calm my shit down.  I don't know what it is about driving that turns me into Lou Ferrigno, but if I so much as can't make a right turn when I want to, I transform into a frothing swerving tire-peeling monstrosity.  One more person waiting for a green light to back out into traffic, and I would have gotten out and thrown cars out of my way.  Thankfully, for every once of road warrior rage I inherited from my father, I also absorbed superlative driving skill and reflexes.  That or I am indestructibly lucky.

[Kastrol Aslaasri]

I snapped my skateboard in half   

[nenjin]

Losing and choosing not to regain my license for about 5 years did a lot for my road rage. It didn't remove it, but it takes slightly more to make me freak out on the road than it used to.

[Greiger]

Fortunately I live in a slightly smaller city and traffic is generally smooth flowing no matter what time of day it is.  Roughest area is international speedway boulevard at about 4:40.  Because it compounds rush hour traffic with a so punctual you can set your watch by it train crossing of one of the busiest roads in the city.  But even that clears up fairly quickly after the train is gone.

Unless you are trying to get anyplace downtown during race week, or going to main street during bike week, or anywhere near Bethune Cookman during Black College Reunion, or beachside during spring break.  Then you aren't going ANYWHERE bub.  All the tourists say that traffic is horrible here and that the streets need widening.  It's not horrible, it's just horrible in the places the tourists are interested in every couple of months.

[Nadaka]

I am watching the CNN show about IFB churches. On the plus side, its good to see this shit getting publicized. On the other hand, it is bringing up shit from my childhood.