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Long time no rant - Edition
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Long time no rant - Edition Welcome, minions, to a special presentation of The Beast Burrow Rant, now with extra offensive odors! I haven't been around much these past months. I had more or less run out of clever topics to discuss, and I was also feeling a bit down being out of work for the first time in 20 years and all. I finally got a respectable job offer last week, and for some reason that fact kicked my brain back into clever mode. I thought of not one, but two rants to share with you all today. I just haven't decided whether I should burn through them both in a single post, or save one for later. I'll get started and see where the typing takes me. RANT ONE: I am completely sick and tired of the Anti-Texting-While-Driving campaign that is currently flooding the television, and other media sources. I have to hear about every person who dies in an automobile accident who couldn't manage to split their attention between driving and their phone in a successful manner. The reason this is pissing me off so much, is because it's absolutely nothing new. I guarantee that millions of people died in automobile accidents due to being distracted drivers well before text messaging was even a possibility. Millions of people have died while trying to find their Stryper cassette tape, applying makeup, trying to dig their last cigarette out from between the seats where they dropped it, spilling their Big Mac and medium Coke into their laps during a turn, getting road head, attempting to pull thier paperwork from their dog's mouth in the back seat, and any number of other, similar incidents. The only reason the text messaging angle is getting so much attention, is because it leaves an electronic finger behind to point the blame at the distracted driver. I have to see commercials with pretty actresses telling me that "No text is worth dying for." I don't remember John Candy making commercials back in the day, stating that "No cheeseburger is worth dying for.... except maybe that one....with bacon." Nothing against John Candy by the way. He just seemed like a man that probably enjoyed the occasional cheeseburger. Text messaging while driving isn't the problem. People not being able to successfully split their attention for a moment or two here and there is the problem. My final duty while active in the U.S. Navy, was as a Level 2 Tactical Boat Coxswain. My average mission consisted of me steering a high speed boat with one hand, controlling the throttle and buckets with the other, operating both a marine band, as well as an encrypted radio set, all while relaying orders to my crew, or receiving information from them. I did all of that while maneuvering in sometimes rough seas, alongside ships large enough to crush my boat like a wounded penguin. I can write and send a text while driving without so much as accidentally running over a squirrel. So that's my rant. I'm just tired of this flavor of the week. I hope everybody has a great evening/day/morning/whatever, and drives home safely.  BEAST OUT |
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Great rant !!!!
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Congrats on the new job 
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"No cheeseburger is worth dying for.... but maybe sushi roll is..."  damn it...it means i can't eat sushi roll while i am driving???
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_uestion...wounded penguin? For some reason that sounded really funny, even tho it wasn't really meant to be.
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