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I was filling out an app when I hit the question section and I couldn't believe what they were asking...

It wasn't too bad at first.


But the question started to get


way too paranoid


even for me.

Really? Really?

I have lived here in Texas for about two months and these are the things that still just take me by surprise.

• Open car windows, I walk down the street and everyone's car windows are rolled down. I know it is hot but doesn't anyone worry about their stuff getting stolen.

• Once the sun goes this place is freaking dark, even the street lights around here barely shed any lights on the street.
  

• People will tell you their whole life story after meeting you for only two seconds.
  

pre-order Halo 3: ODST andyou will receive a token to unlock grizzled UNSC hero Sgt. Johnson as a playable character in Firefight. Halo 3: ODST also contains invite to join the Halo: Reach beta in 2010, along with all the existing Halo 3 maps, ODST contains three new multiplayer Halo 3 maps: Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.

Sure the new DLC for Fallout 3 just has to come out when I am lacking serious funds, DAMN YOU BETHESDA! Now I must go and check my couch cushions for change.

Welcome to this edition of Guess Who!. Watch the video then pick from the answers below of who the ad is for.


Here are your choices:

A. Pfizer
B. eHarmony
C. Coors Lite
D. Facebook
E. Scientology
F. Your Mom

And the answer is... *Drum Roll*



Yes! That is right the answer is E. Scientology. They may not believe in taking drugs but they have no problem hiring the same ad company apparently.

That ends this Edition of Guess Who! until next time.

I have no idea what made Sara have the urge to make Onion Rings, but then again when have I ever questioned a chance at food.

Stuff You Will Need:
1 Large Onion
pot of cooking oil
cup of flour
cup of buttermilk pancake mix
1 egg
cup of milk
pepper, seasoning salt
plate
paper towels

Lets Begin, preheat your pot of cooking oil on medium for about ten minutes.



Slice your onion.



Mix the ingredients in a bowl until it is smooth.



Dip the onion in the batter then place in the oil *CAREFULLY*.

Make sure not to place too many in the oil at once or they will stick together.



Cook for about 3 to 4 minutes on one side.



Then flip and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes until golden brown.



Remove from oil letting the excess drip off for a second.



Place on plate with paper towel to soak up any extra oil.

Repeat previous steps



Reward yourself with Onion Rings, I prefer mine with Ketchup

*How do you do Onion Rings?*

For every complete download of Internet Explorer 8 from browser for the better between June 10 to August 8. Microsoft will donate the equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America Network.

So, If anything download a copy of IE 8 to help people out and then watch the corny Dean Cain PSAs.

F.O.M.S. - Fear Of Missing Something


S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. - Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still


There are still two more to be released.

*In my search for a job I received it application.*

NAME:

SEX: AGE: MARITAL STATUS:

CHILDREN:

HEIGHT: WEIGHT:

SCARS: TATTOOES: PIERCINGS:

ADDRESS:

PHONE:

HIGH SCHOOL NAME: GRADUATE?

LIST TWO REFERENCES:

HAVE YOU TALKED TO ANY LAWYER OR LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSON IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS?

WHO?


IS THERE A NEED FOR ILLUSION?

HAVE YOU BEEN ARRESTED? IF YES, EXPLAIN ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS FORM.

WHERE WERE YOU ONE YEAR AGO?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND ILLUSION:

WHAT CAN YOU DO WELL?

ARE DREAMS TRUE?

HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT US?

DID YOU LIKE THIS APPLICATION?

P.S. WHAT IS TRUE ART?


*I have no idea if this was a joke or not*

I have been noticing lately that Myspace is trying to be more like Facebook even down to the chat bar at the bottom.

So, I think it would be interesting if Facebook were to acquire Myspace from Rupert Murdoch and then merged the two products to make Myfacebook.com. You would have the ablilty to choose between a Myspace or Facebook templete and even switch to the other one later. Your friends list would be universal so no matter which service you use you could talk to people on the other one. Myspace Music and Video services could be intergrated into Facebook's Fan Pages.

To make it even more interesting would be if they could then buy Flickr and Skype to give the user more connecting ability and a larger reach on the internet.

It might be just me but I have noticed that wrestling doesn't have good guys (the babyface) anymore, just different degrees of bad guys. When I was a kid you knew who the good guys and bad guys were. As I grew up a large grey area appeared and some day the bad guy was the good guy and vice versa but at the end of the day you knew where everyone stood. The good guy would get jumped and you could count on another "good guy" running down and coming to the rescue.

Now wrestling is just a rollercoaster ride of one bad guy attacking the not so bad guy of this week. the "storyline" have simply degraded to being complete waste of time. I am starting to wonder if this is really the best way to go with this sport entertainment franchise.

Next you know it will just become a crappy version of UFC. No one wants that.

Lets be honest that the reason this is getting so much attention is for basically two reason. The first being that we don't expect "Television" personalities to be so vocal with their emotions. Humans are humans sometimes no amount of training or experience can stop something or someone from getting under your skin.

Reminds me of the video of Bill O'Reilly Flipping out:


The second comes down to the fact that Leo Laporte comes across as a relaxed and easy going guy. If Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh blew up during a show no one would be shocked, but because Leo stepped outside the fatherly/good guy image people have placed on him it has become a big deal.

In this new world of cameras everywhere and on all the time, we the consumer need to move past the old idea of "Television" personalities not being human. If I called you out and talked shit to you while holding a Camera? Would you walk away or would you flip out on me?

One of the biggest hurdle for Bing is that most people use a certain search engine without even thinking about it. When I do a search for something I don't think about it, I just type it in the search window at the top of my browser. Bing is going to have to bring something pretty big to the table for me to change my default Search engine and to be honest I don't think it can be done.

In a world of Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite, AOL and many more (Even Wolfram/Alpha), I don't see Bing being able to make a mark for itself other then being another "Nice Try" by Microsoft.

I noticed that lately most of the music video Beyoncé has released feature her dancing with two backup dancers. Which begs the question is she starting to miss Destiny's Child or is this just her new version of the former group (she gets all the attention and the other two girls are just in the background.)


Green Light


Single Ladies


Diva


Ego

Does anyone care? If I need to buy some tech I just go to Newegg.com or Amazon.com. I think the only reason anyone used this in the first place was to just to pick it up at the store. The company that bought this domain is the same one that owns TigerDirect.com and a chill to go down my spine just thinking about buying something from there.

This isn't the best way to use the domain and trademark, for the average person I think the first thing they will probably think is "Didn't that company go into bankruptcy?" Is that really something you want your customers to think when seeing your URL?

This could have been made into an awesome tech review site or some other tech type site. I think stepping away from the previous incarnation of the trademark from the start, then slowing adding tech products for sale would have been better for the brand.

Legal Drinking @ 14

* Spain

Legal Drinking @ 16

* Lebanon
* Eritrea
* Austria
* Bulgeria
* Botswana
* Zimbabwe
* France
* Luxembourg
* Germany
* Switzerland (16-18)
* Samoa

Legal Drinking @ 17

* Cyprus

Legal Drinking @ 18

* Ghana
* Kenya
* Canada (18-19)
* Puerto Rico
* Algeria
* Cameroon
* Malawi
* South Africa
* Argentina
* China
* Hong Kong
* Jordan
* Israel
* Fiji
* Australia
* Ukraine
* Sweden
* Russia
* Latvia
* Hungary
* Singapore
* Croatia
* Belarus
* Sri Lanka
* Taiwan
* Mongolia
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* Ecuador
* Columbia
* Chile
* Uganda

Legal Drinking @ 19

* South Korea

Legal Drinking @ 20

* Japan
* Paraguay

Legal Drinking @ 21

* United States Of America
* Indonesia
* Palau

Alcohol Is Illegal

* Libya
* Sudan
* Saudi Arabia
* Kuwait
* Bangladesh
* Iran
* Pakistan ( for foreign nationals (non muslims) the legal drinking age is 21)

No Legal Drinking Age

* Albania
* Brunei
* Denmark
* Poland
* Mauritius
* Georgia
* Cambodia
* Malaysia
* Macau
* Philippines
* Gibraltar
* Slovakia
* Netherlands
* Italy
* Slovenia
* New Zealand
* Malta
* Norway
* Portugal
* Romania
* Serbia
* Swaziland
* Thailand
* Greece
* Finland

If you know of any shows that ended post them in the comments.

Updated As Of 05/22/09, new shows are in bold.

Broadcast

ABC

* According to Jim (Final episode airs June 2)

* Boston Legal

* Cupid (1 unaired episode)

* Dirty Sexy Money (Final 4 episodes air July 18-Aug. 8 )

* Eli Stone (Final 4 episodes air June 20-July 11)

* Homeland Security USA (5 unaired episodes)

* In the Motherhood (3 episodes to air in June)

* Life on Mars

* Opportunity Knocks (6 unaired episodes)

* Pushing Daisies (Final 3 episodes air May 30-June 13, will continue as comic book)

* Samantha Who? (7 unaired episodes - will air on Thursday, June 25)

* The Unusuals (Final episode airs June 17)

CBS

* Eleventh Hour

* The Ex List (7 unaired episodes)

* Game Show in My Head (7 unaired episodes)

* Guiding Light (Last episode airs September 18)

* Harper's Island (Last episode airs July 11)

* Million Dollar Password (Final episode airs June 14)

* Swingtown

* The Unit

* Without a Trace

* Worst Week

The CW

The CW will no longer program Sundays after the 2008-2009 season.

* 13: Fear Is Real

* 4REAL (1 unaired episode)

* Easy Money (4 unaired episodes)

* Everyone Hates Chris

* The Game

* In Harm's Way (5 unaired episodes)

* Privileged

* Reaper (Final episode airs May 26)

* Stylista

* Judge Jeanine Pirro (moving to syndication in September)

* Valentine (4 unaired episodes)

FOX

* Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (Final episode airs in August)

* Do Not Disturb (3 unaired episodes)

* Don't Forget the Lyrics (Final episode airs June 19)

* Hole in the Wall (8 unaired episodes)

* MADtv

* Prison Break (Will be a Direct-to-DVD movie)

* Secret Millionaire

* Sit Down, Shut Up (1 unaired episode)

* TALKSHOW with Spike Feresten

* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

MyNetworkTV

At the conclusion of the 2008-2009 television season MyNetworkTV will cease airing all original programming except Friday Night SmackDown!.

* Celebrity Exposé (several unaired episodes)

* Jail (Final episode airs May 19)

* Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (Final episode airs May 18)

* Masters of Illusion (Final episode airs May 18)

* Street Patrol (Final episode airs May 19)

* The Tony Rock Project

* Under One Roof

* Vice Squad

* The World's Funniest Moments (Final episode airs May 20)

NBC

* America's Toughest Jobs

* The Chopping Block (Final episodes air June 19-July 17)

* Deal or No Deal

* ER

* Howie Do It

* Kath & Kim

* Kings (Final episodes air June 13-July 25)

* Knight Rider

* Late Night with Conan O'Brien

* Life

* Lipstick Jungle

* Medium (Moving to CBS)

* Momma's Boys

* My Name Is Earl

* My Own Worst Enemy

* Superstars of Dance

* The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Final episode airs May 29)

Syndication

* Christina's Court (Will air through September)

* Judge David Young (Will air through September)

* Judge Karen (Will air through September)

* The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (Will air new episodes through June)

* Trivial Pursuit: America Plays (Will air through September)

* The Tyra Banks Show (moving to The CW in September)

Cable

ABC Family

* Kyle XY

* The Middleman

* Sophie (8 unaired episodes)

* Roommates

Adult Swim

* Frisky Dingo

* Moral Orel

* Shin Chan

* The Xtacles

Cartoon Network

* Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

* My Gym Partner's a Monkey

CNN

* D.L. Hughley Breaks the News

Comedy Central

* Chocolate News

* Mind of Mencia

Discovery Channel

* Koppel on Discovery

* Survivorman

Disney Channel

* The Emperor's New School

* The Suite Life With Zach & Cody

FX

* 30 Days

* The Shield

* Testees

MTV

* Making the Band 4 (another Making the Band edition has been ordered)

* TRL

The N

* South of Nowhere

Sci Fi Channel

* Battlestar Galactica (Will be at least one TV-Movie)

* Charlie Jade

* Stargate Atlantis (Will be at least one TV-Movie)

Showtime

* The L Word

SOAPnet

* Greg Behrendt's Wake-Up Call

TBS

* Frank TV

TLC

* Flip That House

* Trading Spaces

TNT

* Trust Me

truTV

* Haunting Evidence

USA

* The Starter Wife

Get Joust, GALAGA, Golden Axe, Gaunlet, Ms. Pac-man, DIG DUG, Paperboy, TMNT 1989 all for Xbox 360 arcade.

Great Deal On 80’s Arcade Classics For Xbox 360

Meh, nothing too special about this movie. I felt like I was watching a cliff notes version of the book:

The Pope dies, something was stolen from the LHC and four Cardinals are kidnapped. Smart guy is asked to come to the Vatican and find the four Cardinals before they are killed. Smart guy runs about to a bunch of old churches trying to save the Cardinals while spouting random facts about history. One of the supposed good guys turns out to be the bad guy.

The overall feel of the movie is rushed and empty. It lacked soul and was at best an extended trailer for the real movie. If you must waste $7.50 on something, you’d be better off watching National Treasure buying some junk food and save yourself the two hours of your life you’ll never get back.

When I started watching this I kept waiting for her to take her top off or for some guy to walk into the shot and ask if she wanted to give him some oral pleasure. BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED! Instead she starts sing? Why she is making these horribly bad lip-sync music video. *Tip* turn off the sound and it looks just like one of those playboy playmate videos.

The hang of living here in Texas. I am really starting to think that my sleep pattern will never return to normal. The search for a job has been less then productive with a production of zero leads. I have no real idea where life will be taking me from here, guess I will just have to wait and see.

Loved it can’t wait to see where they take it. So basically:

Angry man goes back in time to get revenge on some people and in turn changes the timeline and creates a completely different version of the Enterprise crew.

I have to say using the story the way they did was a big risk and it paid out big time. All the actors fit perfectly into their characters and hit a complete homerun.

We made it down to Texas earlier this week. The main reason we came down was to take care of Sara’s Mother and of course it does hurt that I lost my job (Just at the right time?). It has been weird living at someone else place again and getting used to having to deal with other people’s rules. I have been trying to reset my clock to Central, it hasn’t been going well. I am starting to look for a job and spend my extra time updating this site and other things I had been neglecting (READING BITCHES!) because of the time I wasted on my previous job. I will be updating here and other places a lot more as to what I am up to.

Chapter 1: Unleashing

2000 years of peace have pasted in Hyrule, castles of wood and stone have becomes towers of glass and metal. The Hero of Time and The Twilight Princess are now just stories in books. That peace soon would be coming to an end when during an archaeology dig in the desert of the Old Kingdom relics was found. The relics seem to pulse with energy and was inscribed with writing of an almost forgotten language. All the relics were taken back to Hyrule where they were scanned and tagged. As the last last relic was scanned and the inscription translated, the room begun to darken as if the light in the room was being absorbed by the relic. Without warning as the last line was translated the room began to shake and all the equipment shut off. When the power returned to the room and all the equipment began to power back up, all the monitors displayed a glowing image…

The Triforce of Power

Got a pair of Dell BH200 Bluetooth Headphones early this week for around 50.oo Dollars. The first time set-up was fairly simple. After my computer found the headphones, entered the pairing code (0000). Did a full restart before my computer could connect and use them properly. (Make sure you make them your default playback device for your computer.) Only had a few issues where I had to completely restart a program to get them to work with it (*COUGH* itunes *COUGH*).

Pros:

Wireless

Decent range

comfortable

Cons:

Sometimes touchy set up when connecting to PC

No way to check battery level

short USB recharging cable

Well my time here in Washington is coming to an end. I would love to have some huge story about overcoming odds and becoming rich, sadly the story has more of a tone where someone forgot to fuel the plane before take off.

Rewind To About A Year Ago… A friend had money trouble and need money to pay her Utilities before they were shut off, her husband wouldn’t help and she had two small kids. I gave her the money and she promised to pay me back, I have only gotten a quart of the money back to date.

Fast Forward To Eight Months Ago… I added a friend to my phone plan because he was in need of one. It lasted a whole six months before he started to throw a fit about paying me, constantly complaining about or trying to put off paying me all together. another two months later he gets a phone on a different carrier and then disappears without paying me the rest of the money he owes me.

Fast Forward To Five Months Ago… My lead at work gets fired and they hired some ditzy chick for me to train to be my boss cuz she had “experience”. Then for like the next month there is no work, causing me to have to use credit card and borrow money from family just to pull through.

Fast Forward About Month And A Half Ago… The temp agency I worked for lost the contract and the warehouse asked me to switched to the new company. I went down filled out the app and did the drug test, come to find out I would have to keep working for the original agency for 30 days due to some rule or clause in the contract with the warehouse. From the get go it was a train wreck, having to call both agencies to find out about work. My workload and job title changed on a daily basis.

Fast Forward To Last Friday… Everything finally came crashing down when the warehouse started giving me tasks and changing rules then when I responded that I was told otherwise, the temp agency scolded me saying I was lying about it. I was fired after I blew up because the warehouse told me to go to another warehouse an hour before work after I had been told repeated time I didn’t have to go.

These are just the highlights to what has caused me to leave the Northwest and travel down to the South. Check back for the next chapter in my life…

Fox Chairman Tom Rothman told EW:

“The version that went out is unfinished. It’s about 10 minutes shorter, doesn’t have key scenes, it wasn’t edited, and none of the effects shots were in any remotely final form, It’s a complete misrepresentation of the film and is deeply unfair to the people who have worked on it for years.”

I think that this could be a missed chance to leverage more PR for the real movie release, if the leaked movie was treated as a type of trailer / Behind the scences feature. Fox should take a copy of this leaked movie (or a better copy) slap a disclaimer on the front saying this is a unfinished product and a promotional item and then release it to the public.

I have seen the leaked movie and am ten times more excited to see the final release then I would have been if I had never seen it. Most fans would be excited to see how a movie is coming along and being created. The flow of information can’t be stopped but you can control and steer to where you want it to go. Simply standing on the sidelines and crying foul isn’t going to help the problem, you have to evolve with your audience and the world or you will be left trying to catch up.

Lyrics:

I go ooh ooh, you go ah ah
lalalalalalalala

I can lalalalalalalala

I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want
Don't stop
Give me give me give me what you got got
Cause I can't wait wait wait any more more more more
Don't even talk about the consequence
Cause right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think think
Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time for ever, never wanna hear you say goodbye (bye bye bye)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched
And I need you so much

See you, breathe you, I want to be you
Alalalala alalalala
You can take take take take take time time
To live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
Give me give me give me all of you you
Don't be scared
I'll see you through the loneliness of one more more more
Don't even think about what's right or wrong, wrong or right
'Cause in the end it's only you and me and no one else is gonna be around
To answer all the questions left behind
And you and I are meant to be so even if the world falls down today
You've still got me to hold you up up
And I will never let you down (down)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched, untouched
Alalalala alalalala
Untouched
Alalalala alalalala

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
I've gone crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched, untouched, untouched

When you set up Hotmail in the e-mail program on your PC Use the following Info:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Lyrics:

Guess this means you're sorry
You're standing at my door
Guess this means you take back
All you said before
Like how much you wanted
Anyone but me
Said you'd never come back
But here you are again

(Chorus)
Cuz we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

Maybe I was stupid
For telling you goodbye
Maybe I was wrong
For tryin' to pick a fight
I know that I've got issues
But you're pretty messed up too
Either way I found out I'm nothing without you

(Chorus)

Being with you is so dysfunctional
I really shouldn't miss you,
But I can't let you go,
Oh yeah

{ music break}

Cuz we belong together now, (yeah yeah)
Forever united here somehow, (yeah)
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

Cuz we belong (yeah) together now (together now), (yeah)
Forever united here somehow, (yeah)
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you

Lyrics:

[Verse 1:]
Baby, baby
When we first met
I never felt something so strong
You were like my lover
And my best friend
All wrapped into one
With a ribbon on it
And all of a sudden
You went, left
I didn't know how to follow
It's like a shot
That spun me around
And now my heart left
I feel so empty and hollow

[Pre Chorus:]
And I'll never give myself to another
The way I gave it to you
Don't even recognize
The ways you hurt me
Do you?
It's gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you're the one to blame

[Chorus:]
And now I feel like, oh
You're the reason
Why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on
These cigarettes no more
I guess that's what I get
For wishful thinking
I should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease

I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

[Verse 2:]
Damn,
Ain't it crazy when you're love swept?
You'll do anything for the one you love
'Cause anytime that you needed me
I'd be there
It's like you were my favorite drug
The only problem is
That you was using me
In a different way that I was using you
But now that I know, it's not meant to be
You gotta go, I gotta ween myself off of you

[Pre Chorus:]
And I'll never give myself to another
The way I gave it to you
Don't even recognize
The ways you hurt me
Do you?
It's gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you're the one to blame

[Chorus:]
And now I feel like, oh
You're the reason
Why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on
These cigarettes no more
I guess that's what I get
For wishful thinking
I should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease

I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

[Bridge: Timbaland]
Now ladies, gimme that
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, now gimme that
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Now ladies, gimme that
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, now gimme that
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh

[Pre Chorus:]
Oh
You're the reason
Why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on
These cigarettes no more
I guess that's what I get
For wishful thinking
I should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked into rehab and
Baby, you're my disease

I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I gotta check into rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

Letter about the closing posted On T-Shirt Hell by Sunshine Megatron

I’m done. I’m finished. I can’t take the stupidity anymore, so I’m leaving and I’m taking my website with me. As of Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009, T-Shirt Hell will be no more.

No, I’m not selling out to some douchebag corporate entity. No, we’re not being sued by any of the over 40 companies that have sent us cease and desists over the years. No, I’m not going to jail (yet) and no, it’s not because of the economy. Although, the recent dip in sales certainly does make the idea easier to accept, even though we still sell over 3000 shirts a week.

I started this company in June of 2001, nearly 8 years ago, with the intention of producing the best satirical, the most controversial, the funniest t-shirts on the internet. Generally speaking, I feel I’ve accomplished that and am satisfied with what we’ve put out. I made a shitload of dough along the way. I’ve done cocaine off the better body parts of supermodels. I’ve even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi. But these perks are besides the point.

I just don’t feel like dealing with idiots anymore. I’ll give you an example of the kind of misguided morons we deal with on a regular basis at T-Shirt Hell. We released a new shirt a couple weeks ago that says “It’s not gay if you beat them up afterwards”. I will not explain the irony or the social commentary of the slogan because anyone with half a brain should be able to handle that on their own. Problem is, we’ve been besieged with emails from angry people complaining about the “fact” that the shirt is hate speech or that we’re promoting gay bashing and should take it down immediately.

Comments like:
“I can’t even believe people buy this shit. Do you realize your supporting a hate crime? That makes you feel better about yourself? Wow you need a life. We’re all human beings and you can’t except it.”
and
“It’s Not Gay:If You Beat Them Up After”?? That is highly inappropriate and very very morally wrong. I will be advising everyone I know to avoid buying anything from your site until shirts like this are removed. In this world people are fighting for equality and a chance to be themselves without fear of being beat up because of who they are, yet here is an established website promoting hate and violence. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.”

Now, I can’t say I’m surprised we’re getting hate mail from people who have nothing better to do than to start half-assed campaigns because of their lazy, just enough passion for an email, ideals towards a misguided cause. It happened when we did our first really controversial shirt, “The School Shootings Tour”, it happened when we did our “What About All The Good Things Hitler Did” shirt, it happened when we did our “Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” shirt (boy did it happen then). It used to happen all the time when we did more social commentary and didn’t give a fuck about what anyone thought and did shirts that did not leave anyone out. Unfortunately, as a concern for the safety of my employees, we don’t push the envelope as much anymore…and I can’t say I feel good about having caved in.

Anyway, rather than cater to the masses, I’m just going to stop making shirts. It’s not enjoyable anymore and I have enough money to move on to something more rewarding. Maybe I’ll start my own hooker farm or maybe I’ll practice sleeping. Whatever I decide to do, it will be better than this.

Attention any venture capitalists or independent investors/business assholes who are about to inquire about purchasing T-Shirt Hell. Don’t. You won’t do the company justice and I won’t take that chance. I’m putting it to sleep. It’s over.

That’s right, I’m crazy. I’m pulling the plug on a company I could have sold for millions. Why in the fucking world would I do something so stupid? Because I can. I don’t care about money. This is the way I’ve always done things…my way.

So, to all the kickass motherfuckers who supported us and REALLY got what we were trying to do, thank you (no, not you, you racist idiots who thought we actually had racist intentions and no, not you, you dumb as a stump fucks who just think any shirt with the word “fuck” on it is as right as rain). Thanks to all the people who contributed to my vice fund and at the same time helped make a funny statement about the world today.

As a final farewell, I’m going to bring back some of the top selling Worse Than Hell shirts as a fuck you to those who forced me to remove them. To those who are offended by them and to those who think I’m racist, promoting rape, a nazi, homophobic or just the world’s biggest asshole…well, at least you think I’m something, which means I’ve achieved what I wanted.

Thanks to Gary, Mika, Jacob, Greg, Bob, the black lady who writes our newsletter, and to everyone else who was part of T-Shirt Hell. Time to move on to even greater things. I’ll miss you (by miss, I mean, it’s going to suck not being able to give you my excellent reach arounds when you least expect them).

Fuck you,

-Sunshine Megatron

(Original Found @ Complaints Board)

Below I have attached the full details on the scam involving this company. We know this first hand, because this is how we were trained. Please take note of this information and do what you can to get the word out there, especially in a time when the economy has truly affected everyone for the worst. Thank you!

I am a former employee of Cash 4 Gold. I did not know much about the company before being hired. On my first day of being hired, I was taught the “Cash 4 Gold Scam” from beginning to end.

1. The “refiner’s pack” that is used for you to put your jewelry is “insured for UP TO 100 dollars, ” according to how much they determine from a description from you, the worth of your items to be, NOT an actual fully researched appraisal.

2. We receive your “Refiner’s Pack” within 3-4 days, BUT we are instructed to tell you that it takes “7-10 business days, for us to receive your pack, ALTHOUGH many times, your package has already arrived.
(All cash4gold customers who have called customer service to track a package can vouch for this)

3. Your jewelry gets appraised by hand, a magnifying glass, a plastic container, a small weight pad, and a bottle of ORANGISH fluid, which your items are then determined a value for. Not million dollar equipment or specially trained jewelry experts. The company was temporarily closed recently due to health and code violations. I have witness testers being transported to Medical Centers, due to the testing department environment. There is literally a cloud of smoke in the air from acid and other testing material. If you were thinking it was some state of the art testing facility, you thought WRONG.

4. Although the payment (check) for your item is dated within 24 hrs of testing your jewelry, we SOMETIMES DO NOT actually send out the check until up to 3-4 days later. (if you are a customer check the date the check was issued against the stamped date on the envelope.)

5. We do offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee or your jewelry returned, BUT THE CATCH IS, that the guarantee is to contact us within 10 DAYS from when your check is DATED. (This begins with the time it took for the accounts payables dept. to ISSUE the check and also including the TRANSIT TIME for you to receive your check in the mail. **** NOTATE THE COMMERCIALS THAT INSINUATE THAT YOU GET YOUR CASH IN 24 HRS.*** If you request (sign) for FAST CASH (direct deposit) you automatically WAIVE your rights to have your items returned, EVEN if you are not satisfied with amount of your deposit.

6. You generally receive your check around the “7th-10th” business day, AND majority of the time Customers are outraged when they lay eyes on the amount of their check. Some Customer’s even receive a check for 0.01 cents.

7. There have been times when we have received your package and MISPLACED or LOST it at the facility. We CLAIM to not have received the items and even try to convince you that it was lost in the hands of USPS. At which point we begin an insurance claim process on your package. We ask you to send us an itemized list of the content of the package, trying to be as descriptive as you possible can (if you can remember everything in full detail) and a copy of your state issud ID. We then issue an INSURANCE CLAIM for UP TO 100 dollars. GOD FORBID your items are worth more then a 100 dollars. If you call customer service to check on the status of your shipment, and we actually have not received your package, we inform you of the insurance claim process. For those who know that their items are worth more than a hundred dollars, they become very upset and threaten to take action against the company, at that point we inform the customer that if they knew their items were worth more they should have added additional insurance at the Post Office. BUT unless you are paying to ship your items in a completely different package other then the refiner’s kit, you are unable to add insurance to the package.

8. For those who do get in touch with us within the allotted time frame, we already know what you are calling about. Customers want their items returned, because there
check amount is so insultingly LOW. The first thing a Rep will
ask you is “HOW MUCH WERE YOU EXPECTING TO GET BACK?” This way we can know how much to “BONUS” you.

*Definition of a BONUS: We issue low checks just to have you call us back if you are smart enough to realize that you just got scammed. For the smart one’s we are paid to offer u a bonus up to 3x the original amount of your check and you accept. For ex: Sally Smith receives a check for $27.86 for a Rolex watch(which we don’t issue value for), a class ring, a ring with diamond chips, a pair of earrings with emeralds, as well as a few sterling silver pieces, and maybe a few items that were really of no value. Now Sally Smith calls the cust srvc dept, where she speaks to a rep who seems so concerned and will see if she can do better with the amount by speaking to a “SUPERVISOR”. We then place the caller on Mute, and speak to our neighbors or doodle on a sheet, or twiddle with our hair for about 45 seconds, while we are supposedly speaking to our supervisor about Ms. Smith’s complaint. We then come back with an offer to “BUMP UP YOUR MELT DATE or any other lies the cust srvc reps can think of, and offer you a total amount of $53.20 which is a little under double the amount of your original check; in which case if you accept, the cust srvc rep makes a 15.00 bonus off of your transaction. If the customer service rep offers you under triple the amount of your orig check, he/she makes 10.oo in bonuses.

9. If you accept the offer, the deal is done, and you are told that the call is recorded (which most of the time, the record button does not work, or the box if full.)It’s just a way to make your feel binded by a verbal contract. IF you do not accept the deal, you have to return your check, and it takes sometimes up to a month to receive your items back after we receive the check.

10. If you only want the items that we do not find of any value back, you have to pay 10.00 shipping and handling fee to have your own items returned, which varies. Although it is listed under the terms and conditions, this charge varies from a 10.00-15.00 charge to NO charge, reason being, UNSURE.

Cash 4 Gold is definitely not a trustworthy or credible company to do business with. You are almost better off taking your items to a local pawn shop or shopping around for other companies. With the economy the way it is, Cash 4 Gold seems to be a way out of financial stress for some, but in actuality becomes a stress of its own. I would advise you to think twice before sending in valuables or items inherited and of sentimental value, its not worth it.

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Dear Co-Workers and Managers,

As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave, I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and distinct pleasure it has been to type “Today is my last day.”

For nearly as long as I’ve worked here, I’ve hoped that I might one day leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending lack of support. Words cannot express my gratitude for the words of gratitude you did not express.

I would especially like to thank all of my managers both past and present but with the exception of the wonderful Saroj Hariprashad: in an age where miscommunication is all too common, you consistently impressed and inspired me with the sheer magnitude of your misinformation, ignorance and intolerance for true talent. It takes a strong man to admit his mistake – it takes a stronger man to attribute his mistake to me.

Over the past seven years, you have taught me more than I could ever ask for and, in most cases, ever did ask for. I have been fortunate enough to work with some absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide variety of seemingly identical projects – an invaluable lesson in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium.

Your demands were high and your patience short, but I take great solace knowing that my work was, as stated on my annual review, “meets expectation.” That is the type of praise that sends a man home happy after a 10 hour day, smiling his way through half a bottle of meets expectation scotch with a meets expectation cigar. Thanks Trish!

And to most of my peers: even though we barely acknowledged each other within these office walls, I hope that in the future, should we pass on the street, you will regard me the same way as I regard you: sans eye contact.

But to those few souls with whom I’ve actually interacted, here are my personalized notes of farewell:

To Philip Cress, I will not miss hearing you cry over absolutely nothing while laying blame on me and my coworkers. Your racial comments about Joe Cobbinah were truly offensive and I hope that one day you might gain the strength to apologize to him.

To Brenda Ashby whom is long gone, I hope you find a manager that treats you as poorly as you have treated us. I worked harder for you then any manager in my career and I regret every ounce of it. Watching you take credit for my work was truly demoralizing.

To Sylvia Keenan, you should learn how to keep your mouth shut sweet heart. Bad mouthing the innocent is a negative thing, especially when your talking about someone who knows your disgusting secrets. ; )

To Bob Malvin (Mr. Cronyism Jr), well, I wish you had more of a back bone. You threw me to the wolves with that witch Brenda and I learned all too much from it. I still can’t believe that after following your instructions, I ended up getting written up, wow. Thanks for the experience buddy, lesson learned.

Don Merritt (Mr. Cronyism Sr), I’m happy that you were let go in the same manner that you have handed down to my dedicated coworkers. Hearing you on the phone last year brag about how great bonuses were going to be for you fellas in upper management because all of the lay offs made me nearly vomit. I never expected to see management benefit financially from the suffering of scores of people but then again, with this company’s rooted history in the slave trade it only makes sense.

To all of the executives of this company, Jamie Dimon and such. Despite working through countless managers that practiced unethical behavior, racism, sexism, jealousy and cronyism, I have benefited tremendously by working here and I truly thank you for that. There was once a time where hard work was rewarded and acknowledged, it’s a pity that all of our positive output now falls on deaf ears and passes blind eyes. My advice for you is to place yourself closer to the pulse of this company and enjoy the effort and dedication of us “faceless little people” more. There are many great people that are being over worked and mistreated but yet are still loyal not to those who abuse them but to the greater mission of providing excellent customer support. Find them and embrace them as they will help battle the cancerous plague that is ravishing the moral of this company.

So, in parting, if I could pass on any word of advice to the lower salary recipient (”because it’s good for the company”) in India or Tampa who will soon be filling my position, it would be to cherish this experience because a job opportunity like this comes along only once in a lifetime.

Meaning: if I had to work here again in this lifetime, I would sooner kill myself.

To those who I have held a great relationship with, I will miss being your co-worker and will cherish our history together. Please don’t bother responding as at this very moment I am most likely in my car doing 85 with the windows down listening to Biggie.

One!

Lyrics:

Lalalalala

Oh baby baby
Have you seen Amy tonight?
Is she in the bathroom
Is she smokin' up outside
Oh

Oh baby baby
Does she take a piece of lime
For the drink that Imma buy her
Do you know just what she likes
Oh

Oh Oh
Tell me have you seen her
Because I'm so
Oh
I can't get her off of my brain

I just want to go to the party she gonna go
Can somebody take me home
Ha ha he ha ha ho

Love me hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy

Lalalalalala

Amy told me that she's gonna meet me up
I don't know where or when and now they're closing up the club
Oh

I've seen her want to drive before she knows my face
But it's hard to see with all the people standing in the way
Oh

Oh oh
Tell me have you seen her
Because I'm so
Oh
I can't get her off of my brain

I just want to go to the party she's gonna go
Can somebody take me home
Ha ha he ha ha ho

Love me hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy

Oh
So what you want about me
Oh
But can't you see what I see
Oh
So what you want about me

So tell me if you've seen her
Cause I've been waiting here forever
Oh baby baby
If You Seek Amy tonight
Oh
Oh baby baby
We'll do whatever you like
Oh baby baby baby
Oh baby baby baby

Lalalalalala
Lalalalalala

Love me hate me
So what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me
But can't you seek what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me so what you want about me (yeah)
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy

Oh
So what you want about me
Oh
But can't you see what I see
Oh So what you want about me

All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy

Heath Ledger’s death is a huge publicity stunt to get him an Oscar. His name is called and they run the usually film reel showing him in different movies through his life, the lights come back on and the announcer is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal will be accepting the award. Suddenly all the lights go out and a single spot light appears center stage with Heath Ledger standing there holding his Oscar. He slowly walks to the mic and simply says, “Ashton Kutcher has nothing on me, Bitches”. Heath Ledger is then black listed from Hollywood and spends the rest of his life living in Japan with his wife Mary Kate Olson. When asked if he went too far his only response is, “I did what I felt I needed to do for the sake of the my art”.

After you dole out your 800 MS Points (13.50 if you have zero points) and download the DLC. You meet a man named Gordon at the Bowerstone Docks, who’ll give you a few special items after you agree to go to Knothole Island to help with their weather problem. Now begins your adventure in EPIC LACKING! (It only took me two hours to beat at a slow pace.) The expansion contains three main quests which require you to leave the island and then come back to the ONLY! town on the whole island. Dungeons are more of a giant hallway with Flit switch moments (lets make the game take longer, cuz we can’t think of anything else to do) that could have simply been enemies battles instead. The two other quests are for the “I must find everything” people (even then it doesn’t take that long). There is even a resurrection shrine for those whose dog was killed.

While I was sucked in at first by all the awesome little growth, shrink, thin, fat and scar healing potions; I soon found myself bored with the real lack of meat in the content. A Halo rifle and suit of armor is no replacement for story.

WHAT I WOULD LIKED TO HAVE SEEN:

* Instead of just one town with three different dungeons. I would of liked to see three unique towns each with it own Dungeon and then a central final dugeon in the center of the island.

* Couple of new “weather” related spells or enemies.

* The Resurrection Shrine as a Dungeon or Quest, where you would have to kill a certain amount of enemies/NPC to resurrection your dog.

* Potions to increase or decrease your good or evilness.

Lyrics:

Her name is Noel
I have a dream about her
She rings my bell
I got gym class in half an hour
Oh how she rocks
In Keds and tube socks
But she doesn't know who I am
And she doesn't give a damn about me

Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Yeah I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me

Her boyfriend's a dick
And he brings a gun to school
And he'd sI'mply kick
My ass if he knew the truth
He lives on my block
And he drives an Iroc
But he doesn't know who I am
And he doesn't give a damn about me

Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Yeah I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me

Yeeah dirtbag, no she doesn't know what she's missin
Yeeah dirtbag, no she doesn't know what she's missin

Man I feel like mold
It's prom night and I am lonely
Low and behold
She's walking over to me
This must be fake
My lip starts to shake
How does she know who I am
And why does she give a damn about

I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby
Come with me Friday, don't say maybe
I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby like you

Yeeah dirtbag, no she doesn't know what she's missin
Yeeah dirtbag, no she doesn't know what she's missin