Termyn8or
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I saw a sign on I 90 the other day. TOW AWAY ZONE. It had a picture of a car being towed away on it. Look at your dashboard, can you read the words DRIVE, PARK, REVERSE ? VOLUME, CHANNEL/TRACK and EQ ? A/C or HEAT, or DEFROST ?
Apparently not, or so they think. they got pictures. Now pictures are fine but I don't need the proverbial thousand words to figure out how to change the fucking radio station. Well actually now I do because it was always the same, volume on the left and tuner on the right. there were less auto accidents then, but now you got "select visualization for this station" and " custom equalize this station, low signal level or high ? ". by the time you get done with that you have run your little Honda under a semi.
MEN WORKING. Sexist ? Tell you what, that is one of the few profesions that are male dominated. In the past I would say it - TRY IT. They show a picture of a guy swinging a fucking pick down in the ground and while that might be how it used to be, now it is a matter of operating a few levers in some big ass machine. Women would kill us but for the fact that 70% of he CDLs in this country are "granted" to males.
Women, want equality ? Equity in pay ? Come with me down to a basement flooded with sewage and help dig it out by hand because the big cool power tools cannot be taken down there. (if you do I might fall in love, but no promises)
And fix my car. To effectively fix a fucking car these days you need about six elbows on each of your nine arms. Think I' kidding ? Fucking try it. change an alternator on a 1990s Chevy 3.4L and come and tell me. Tell me.
And not one of you MFs has ever fixed a TV set. I'll bet my balls on it unless it was something so simple an eight year old kid could do it. My Uncle was a tech SPECIALIST for IBM and made more money than I could sneeze at. I mean really, I just couldn't sneeze for some reason. But guess who fixed his TV(s). His son was offered his job (my cousin) and he turned it down flat. Went on to really make it big. Yes I am one of the black sheep in the family. But my genius cousin said straight out that just underatanding the thing was difficult for almost everyone, and that was a long time ago when people were nowhere near as stupid as they are today. In fact there were still tube testers in some drugstores.
That motherfucker has at least TWICE my electronics knowledge and that is saying something. Fucker turned down a job at IBM starting at sixty grand a year, BACK IN 1983 or so ! Now that' fucking earning power. Like I said I am a black sheep. So was the olman but you wouldn't have had floppy disks on time witout him building the prototype of the machines that made them. High school dropout, telling degreed engineers "You are fucking crazy, you can't do it that way". And then figured how it MUST be done. And did it.
Yes, Chris Rock is cool. That N____a brings it out. Right up front. All we bevieve, or think we know is fucked up.
What's next with the illiteracy of America ? No more numbers on the speedometers ? At 20MPH there is a picture of a school. At 70 a picture of a highway sign. And at 100 MPH is a picture of a jail door. Generally if you get caught doing over 100MPH in this country, you go to jail.
Catch me bitches :-)
So now what, for the heater we got a picture of fire, and for AC we got a picture of a fucking ice cube. And you know what the hard part is....... Some people don't even understand that !
I mean there is a sign with a picture on it showing a car being towed by the happy hooker, and there is a car parked right there !
Now power tools. I have saws, a couple of radial arm saws which I have no fucking idea why I ever bought, two miter saws which I have used and kinda like, a table saw and who the fuck knows. DO NOT RUN THIS SAW WITHOUT ALL GUARDS IN PLACE lal la la. Well with all the guards in place you can't even see the fucking saw ! " Where do I put the wood at ? " It has a blade, it turns fast and cuts things. The guards are in place, down in my mucky basement.
Now if you want to keep on having ten fingers, you keep them away from the blade. In case nobody mentioned it, don't run with scissors. Geezus fucking whatever. How hard can it be to figure out how not to cut your goddamned hands off ?
Now the guards on the miter saws are not so bad because they tend to keep the sawdust out your eyes.
We ain't done. A fucking toaster. "PLUG THE AC POWER CORD INTO 120V AC ONLY". I think I can handle that. Then the thing says, and this was right in the manual, not an addendum, "WARNING, HANDLING THE POWER CORD OF THIS DEVICE MAY RESULT IN CARCINOGENS...... or some such. No shit !
Now how the fuck do I plug it in to a properly grounded (even though it does not have the ground pin) 120 VAC outlet that is instsalled by sixteen fucking neurosurgeons if I can't touch the fucking cord ?
You tell me. I mean that both ways. You tell me of this stupid shit in your experience. And this thread is not going to die, there is plenty of stupidity to go around.
The newest job I guess can be on the internet. Just make pictures for everything so people never need to learn how to read. A definite growth industry if I ever saw one.
Have at it.
T^T
< Message edited by Termyn8or -- 8/5/2011 3:46:57 AM >
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