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Corporate Vandalism

Has anyone besides me noticed and/or hated the common practice now for car dealers? You know, the one where they plaster THEIR name on YOUR new car? Did ANYONE give them permission? I mean, it's not their property, they don't ask 'hey, do you mind if we turn your pricey little vehicle into a motorized billboard for us?', they just stick it on there and tough shit to you if you don't like it. And it's not like it's some little thing that comes off easily. It's usually shellacked onto your paint job, and good luck to you to pry it off without damaging the finish on your car. Or even better, one of those metal jobs. I think it's just the biggest load of bullshit that, apparently, most people are willing to put up with. I figure if people went on strike for even one month, refusing to buy any car with the car dealer's emblem tattooed on it, suddenly the practice would stop. If they're going to do it, and use your automobile as free advertising, well... it shouldn't be free. Tell them you'd be happy to leave their name on the car, but since a billboard would cost them, and your car is more effective than a billboard since it actually moves around, you'll expect an appropriate and proportional discount off the sticker price of said car. After all, it's not exactly enhancing the look of your car. No one ever ASKED for one of these things as a fashion statement. They look like hell. Tacky tacky.

Words cannot convey how much I detest these people for effectively vandalizing every new car they sell, and suffering no consequences for it.

Some People Just Aren’t Cut Out for Helping Others

I've recently been attempting to learn some new things on my computer. Different codes, programs, etc. This means that when my brain starts bleeding from trying to make sense of the tutorials, most of which are written, apparently, for those who don't need them, I have to turn to help forums. Help forums are wonderful things. They really are. But, there are some that populate these forums that would be better suited to a line of work that did not involve interaction with, oh, say, any form of life. These are the ones that enjoy making you feel like a retard for not getting something that they've forgotten that they weren't born knowing, either. They get snippy, insulting, impatient... amazing, considering IT'S A HELP FORUM! PEOPLE GO THERE WHEN *gasp* THEY NEED HELP! I mean, come on, if they only wanted to deal with peers, wtf are they doing in areas reserved for novices and the uninitiated? Using them for target practice? It really pisses me off. If it's such a pain in their asses to have to deal with so-called 'stupid' questions, why not just crawl back under their rock and leave the rest of us that are just trying to learn new things in peace? I'm an intelligent woman, and to have some asshole speak to me in a way that shows with glaring clarity that he's confused ignorance with stupidity makes me want to reach through the screen, grab his toungue, attach it to my bumper and drive off into the sunset, his vampire-white, underdeveloped, penis-envy ridden ass bouncing along behind me. BUT I'M NOT BITTER!