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  1. Swift Terror

    12/28: A Message To Lexus

    Lexus pretty much heads the list of smug car commercials (BMW is a very, very close second). Damn do they think they are the shit. I remember one where they had a small metal ball rolling along the exterior panel gaps. Great, your gaps line up, I hope you're proud of yourself.
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    12/5: A Message To O.J. Simpson

    I never thought of $1500 as a "large amount" with regard to Christmas bonus....that is until I compared it with what I'm getting...zero. I don't really care. I've never gotten a Christmas bonus in my life. I figured they were a thing of the past except for people at Fortune 500 companies. We had to get a new furnace during late spring. A little over $5,000. It is a LOT more efficient than what we had and our electric bill is down considerably since we got it. Too bad our furnace didn't break down on Jan 21st. Obama would've taken care of us along with our mortgage and gasoline costs.
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    10/14: Magic Kingdumb

    Damn, I thought shit like that (calling Child Services for petty reasons) only happened in recent politically correct f'd up times. Dat's messed up. But wow, I feel for you and your crappy vacations. My childhood vacations were, while not fancy or extravagant, paradise compared to yours.
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    10/9: Cat On The Run

    I've never had a pet run off/run away permanently or really for a long length of time. I did, however, once believe that a cat of ours had runaway. That's what my parents told me. I found out years later that the cat had in fact been struck by a car and killed. I guess it was better to spare me that. I would have been scarred for life....although watching such things as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and various other sick violent movies as a kid didn't mess me up so I suppose I could've handled it.
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    9/24: Greed Is Good, Dumb Questions Aren't

    Gordon Gecko rules. But the ending was indeed awful. I mean, Charlie whore-addicted Sheen punching Douglas in the face in Central Park? Boring
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    9/7: On Wounded Knee

    I've never had the new Pizza Hut pasta things and likely never will. I've even soured on their pizza for the most part. It sucks compared to our local pizza restaurant. But you wanna talk commercials, the Geico cavemen commercials continue to kick ass.
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    9/4: Mystery In Alaska

    I'll vote for that, but there's no way that picture is authentic. I believe there are dozens of fake photos like that on the net--not that she probably doesn't look that good herself. Snopes has declared it fake and has the original photo with actual chicks head (and she aint as good looking as Palin).
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    8/27: Boy Panera Sure Costs Plenty Of Bread

    Well, the Bread Company was replaced by a Mattress company that sells high-end mattresses, including Tempur-pedic. I guess we are bolstered by the shining light of promise that is embodied in the form of Obama. Oh yeah, and the wasteland directly across the main road from where we worked has been built up into an ultra-hippie "outdoor mall" type thing with all kinds of fancy-schmancy stores, inluding a Birkenstock store.
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    8/27: Boy Panera Sure Costs Plenty Of Bread

    The Atlanta Bread Company store that was near the test scoring place closed a while ago. It seems the hippies around here prefered Panera. I will say that Panera has/had a melon drink thing that I loved. But I had to break the addiction because I was sick of paying 4 or 5 dollars for it.
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    8/25: Bias Toward Hitlery, Young Pitchers

    The topic of the kid fastballer came up on the local radio show here (Mike McConnell) and plenty of people called up debunking the fact that 40mph is overwhelming speed at that age. If he tops out at 40mph, then most of the time he's pitching in the mid-30s and that is not unheard of. The Cooey story has come up here in Ohio also. If his argument is limited to cruel and unusual, then I guess as long as they can find a painless way to kill him, he's ok with that. But no, he wants his sentence commuted I believe.
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    2/14: I [heart] Shittsburgh

    Oh God regarding the trailer for the new Indiana Jones. The reason this movie will suck is because it will be one long continuous joke about how old Harrison Ford/Indiana is and all the things he won't be able to do. Like screwing up a rope swing. I'm anticipating the line "I'm too old for this" to occur at least once. It will be one of the most pathetic, appalling moments in movie history.
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    Jericho Truthers are gay

    So I decided to watch Jericho last night to see what all the hubub is about. I wanted to find out what the deal was with the nuclear attacks, who was behind it, etc. Turns out that it was an inside job. Yep, forces in the U.S. government and/or U.S. military were behind the attack. Sound familiar? Is Alex Jones and other 911 truthers creative consultants on this show? I regret the space wasted on my DVR. I made the mistake of turning on Rome today and of course he commented on the Quinn thing. "It better not be true." "I know you're smarter than that Brady." Yeah Jim, it's a real surprise a football player would rip on gays. Am I the only one who knows that there is a bigtime culture in football that is not hardcore anti-gay but is in fact steeped in gay jokes and the like. John Feinstein acknowledged this when he wrote his book on the Army Navy football rivalry. He encountered it while traveling with the teams for his book. The real story here is not what Quinn did or didn't say, it is rather the ridiculous overreaction of the ghey guy. Calling 911 emergency over a verbal insult? You're foolish, sir.
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    2/13: Quinn The Queer, India Up In Smoke

    I believe you are destinied for both the Christian Hell and the Islamic Hell for those pics. lol at the Brady Quinn incident. Insults are a 911-worthy occurrence? Since when is it against the law in this country to insult people? Oh yeah, when you're insulting a minority. Hey, can someone call 911 on you for your notorious "I wish the cancer fairy on you" saying? That would be the only thing more ridiculous and sissy than the Quinn story. Nah, nah, I'm calling the authorities on you.
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    George Romero talks "Diary of the Dead"

    Basically Romero didn't want to have the movie set in 1968 but rather in present day. Yet, he wanted the events of the movie to be at the start of when "there's no more room in hell" and the epidemic begins. It's nothing more than that, just having present day as the setting. Kind of like the people that remade "Dawn" choosing not to set that movie in 1978.
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    2/9: Cooling Down On The Global Warming Talk

    To my shame, my beloved Ohio State Univ. has mud on its face concerning Glenn Beck. Well, a few OSU journalism students anyway. About a week ago Beck did a parody bit where he listed all the reasons Hillary Clinton is a racist. It was tongue in cheek of course, pointing out how easy it is to label someone a racist. These jackball journalism students thought it was serious and have started a curfluffle over it in the student newspaper "The Lantern", calling Beck a....racist, etc. Even though Beck listeners have clued them in on the whole thing, they still stand by the article as an opinion piece. **At the time of this writing, it is unknown whether editors for The Lantern have read "An Inconvenient Book". I'm sure they'll get around to it very soon.
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    2/7: Banking On An Expected Reaction

    I end up losing my debit card every few years. This last time I decided to ask for 2 copies of the new card so I'll have a backup when I lose the next one (this will prevent me from having to change/update my card number all over the place). First of all, you would have thought I was asking for the vault combination the way they reacted. It must be that nobody has ever asked this. Then they send my 2 cards alright, 2 DIFFERENT cards with 2 different numbers. Not what I wanted. I finally got them to cancel one and send me a copy of the other.
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    2/2: 4:30 p.m.

    That's awful news. I'm really sorry for you both.
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    Torque is tough

    Speaking of working on technical manuals, I recently came across a typo that resulted in a particularly hilarious sexual inuendo. There was a sentence in a document dealing with applying torque to a nut (tightening a nut on a bolt). In this case the word "torquing" became "tonguing". This resulted in: "Hold nut stationary during tonguing". Honorable Mention, Toughest Man Alive, 21st Century: John Coward Link This British Airways co-pilot successfully landed a Boeing 777 after the plane experienced a complete, catastrophic failure of both engines and the plane's electrical systems. This occurred seconds before the landing approach. Only a handful of people were hurt. Actor Heath Ledger died. Nothing against the guy, but he's just an actor. Not a big deal really. But I expect a lot of hyperbolic praise will be forthcoming from the media, giving him near saint status.
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    Dictating nonsense, job

    Stephen A Smith went off on Rudy Giuliani while on Hardball. On the face of it, it doesn't bother me, but what does bother me is that he gave no real reason for why he thinks Rudy would be a dictator (LMAO). Just another Wilbon with a louder mouth. There'd be "no foreign relations"? Nice train of thought, Smith, well spoken. In kkk's 8pm post I asked what his new job was. So in fairness, I'll partially spill the beans as to what I do. I write greeting cards. Just kidding. I work on technical documents for Industrial Gas Turbines and Gas Generators. What are those? Do a search I don't feel like explaining it. I work for a giant (evil) defense contractor. I have to deal with people in a foreign country on a daily basis, which is just so much fun. I'm kind of both an editor and writer of technical documents.
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    1/21: First Day On The Job

    I hate the new job break-in period as well. It's great to get that moment where you are finally comfortable, not only with the job itself, but with the co-workers and boss. So what is it that you do?
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    1/19: Wishing More Death

    Guess what? Sylvester Stallone is going to remake Death Wish. Don't laugh, it may be good. "Rocky Balboa" was very good. Stallone (correctly) feels that the villians, muggers, scum, etc in the DW movies were lame and dated and just don't work today. He envisions really sicko, serial killer type bad guys that piss off a former violent person who spent time in prison. Said person goes Roman on the baddies. Stallone interview: Link
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    1/17: One QB Will Be Without A Classic Comedy Saturday

    Imagine if he had stated he was a fan of a current primetime show.
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    1/18: 12 p.m.

    As you tearfully leave your workplace and work computer for good, remember that this will stand beside marriage and the birth of your child as one of life's seminal moments (and don't forget to "clean" said computer of any and all "personal" material).
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    1/16: A Death Wish Against Generic Brands

    Yeah, I forgot to mention ketchup. Heinz is the only brand I'll ever buy. Although I swear I had ketchup that was, I thought at the time, BETTER than Heinz. This was when me and the then pre-Mrs Terror went to Moab, Utah on vacation. There was a restaurant we went to and they had a bottle of what looked like a generic brand on the table, but this was the best ketchup I had ever tasted. I made a point to remember it, but I never found it again and I forget now what it was called. I mean this was like the Dom Perignon of ketchup. I loved Death Wish but all the sequels obviously sucked. Bronson's character has to be one of the most politically incorrect characters in movie history, blowing away mainly minorities the way he did.
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    Whining about generics

    This study is creating a buzz about perceptions of high-priced wines versus low-priced wines. Everybody is talking about this, man they are just goo-goo over this story. People in the study were more satisfied with wines labeled at a high-price over the same wine labeled with a low price. So what? How is this not a no-brainer to everyone? Of course people are influenced by price, not to mention product labeling in terms of looks and packaging. The perception is, high price means better and we all fall into that trap more often than not. Now I will say that lower priced generics or store brand products at the grocery store are, by and large, crap. There are certain products that I will always pay more for the brand because the brand name product is just plain better. But for other products, the generic version is fine. My No-Generic-Ever list: peanut butter (Jiff) barbeque sauce (no store brand ever, may try an unknown premium brand) salad dressing (same as BBQ sauce) spaghetti sauce (same as BBQ sauce) cookie dough (only Pillsbury or Nestle) Nutri-grain bars Quaker oatmeal (the kind you add hot water) baked beans (Bushs) orange juice Generic Ok list: bread 100% fruit juice, e.g. cranberry/apple juice ice cream some cereals
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