Bell Canada Sucks
Bell Canada, specifically Bell TV sucks. I called today to remove one speciality channel bundle from our package figuring, “this should only take 5 minutes right”.
Right.
Change made and I hung up.
Then my kids report there is no TV. So I look and sure enough, no programming. They had managed to cancel all of our channels. Real smart.
Phone call #2.
Now I am all for cutting costs and understand outsourcing overseas is a fact of life but please, have people who speak the Queen’s English or at least SOME english…
Phone call #2 lasted long enough for me to have pull and replace the smart(oxymoron?) card.
Phone call #3 was 27 minutes with someone from Canada and involved 20 minutes saying “i am not an idiot, i know how to pull out the smart card”, and “the problem is that you cancelled ALL of my programming!”
Finally I convinced the Bell idgit that I did not want to stop my subscription (although tempting thanks to these blunders) and for them to just DTFJ(do their f-effing job)!
One hour and more hair off the top of my head lost.
Thanks Bell Canada, np really… thanks.
My Idiot Neighbour
Our houses here are narrow, very narrow. All of the driveways on our street are 18 feet wide and about 22 feet long before you hit the street. With 2 cars in the driveway, you really don’t have a lot of snow to shovel, even with a good snow storm.
Enter my neighbour, the idiot. The guy purchased a $1200 snowblower for doing that little patch of area. He also plows out two other people (and no I am not one of them nor do I want to be) so that he can feel like a big man of the street.
I am not an environmentalist however he ran that two-stroke snow blower for a good hour, mostly shooting the breeze with others rather than plow out the snow. I went outside and in 10 minutes had my driveway, sidewalk and deck shoveled. The amount of exhaust and “carbon” that blew out of that snow-blower is a waste.
What they say is true, you can’t pick your neighbours unless you own all the land around you.
2010 predictions…
Filed under: General, Government, Humour, News, Politics, Travel, United States
Yes, New Years is just a few days away so I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and predict a few things myself. Hey, even I have the tin-foil hat to match!
In 2010 (and in no particular order)…
There will be no Election Federally. The Liberal Party will continue to languish on the sidelines while Iffy remains predictable. Expect 2010 to be the last year of Iffy’s reign.
Frank McKenna will again say he’s not interested in the Leadership of the Liberal Party.
Stephen Harper will remain Prime Minister. Look for a reprise behind the piano singing “Day in a Life”.
Bob Rae will still be Bob Rae (Socialist in Liberal Clothing) and all that that entails.
Provincially, Dalton McLiar’s Liberals will win the two by-elections because Ontario voters are sheep.
Ontario will remain a “have-not” province.
Newfie Jokes will officially be renamed Ontario Jokes.
On July 1st, 2010 we will have the BST/HST/DST whatever you want to call it, because you can tax people into prosperity no?
Tim Hortons will raise the price of their crappy coffee again.
Canadian Tire will continue to have that annoying slogan and music on all of their commercials, and yet I still cannot buy just one bolt, I have to buy a package of 20.
I will finally finish the front deck to our house.
2010 will ring forth a new swath of celebrity deaths that will make people realize how empty their lives are by following these celebrities. They will be sad at their deaths and say things like, “Wow I didn’t see it coming.” Then these people will find new celebs to follow and life will be good again.
Tiger Woods will be divorced. Elin Woods will be rich.
Britney Spears will have another breakdown and shave her head again.
Another Twilight movie will come out boring millions of husbands, subjecting them to hours of mind-numbing stupidity.
Johnny Cash will still be dead. So will John Wayne.
Some unknown idiot with way too much time on their hands and no job will grab a video camera and upload something so stupid onto Youtube that millions will view it and love it.
Some new web site will come on the scene that will make Facebook and MySpace obsolete and yet be so stupid that people miss the time wasting site Twitter.
2010 will be the new 1985 with every one-hit wonder from 1985 being remixed by someone in 2010 because originality in music died around 1985.
On December 30th, 2010 I will write another blog posting predicting 2011 and seeing how wrong I was about 2010. I really hope I am wrong about 2010.
Happy New Years everyone, don’t forget not to talk on your cell while driving, always eat your veggies and remember your manners. - Phil
Hmm…
“Maybe if I am looking down, they wont notice my tax grab…”
Lest We Forget
Talk like Yoda
This is pretty cool; http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php
It takes anything you say and turns it into Yoda-speak. To test this out, I thought… Why not a song from Moxy Früvous.
King of Spain by Moxy Früvous - As spoken by Yoda
The king of spain (now I eat humble pie), once I was.
Oh… My unspeakable wife, queen lisa (now I eat humble pie).
Telling you I was the king of spain (now I eat humble pie) I am.
And now I work at the pizza pizza.
Royalty, it looked good on me lord.
Buried in silk in the royal boudoir or going nuclear free.
Or with the princess of monaco playing crokinole.
To the opec leaders telling my jokes, it all on video getting.
The king of spain (now I eat humble pie) I once was.
Palatial palace, my home (now I eat humble pie), that was.
Telling you I was the king of spain (now I eat humble pie), am I.
And now I vacuum the turf at skydome (once, the king of spain), was he.
Wait, I cannot wait, lowering interest rates, am I, my people say:
“King, how such a genius are you, hmm?
Roof overhead and food on our plates, there is!”
Laisez-faire, it is laisez-faire, give a care I even not.
Make friday part of the weekend, let us.
And give every new baby a chocolate eclair.
The king of spain (now I eat humble pie), once I was.
Hey clinton! Hey yeltsin! Got problems, hmm? Me (now I eat humble pie) you phone.
Telling you I was the king of spain (now I eat humble pie), I am.
The king of spain), now the leafs call me up to drive the zamboni (once he was.
Probably wondering how I cam to be living in canada, now some of you are.
After being royalty in spain. Should I tell them, guys, hmm?
Tell us, king! Hmmmmmm.
You see late one night when the palace was asleep.
Of my royal chambers and into the garden I creep out.
And I wait till the appointed time, when lighting the pitch, the moon is.
At which point my peasant friend, like me who looks just.
Arrives and, a switch, make we.
Prince and pauper, junior and whopper.
Of silver and copper world made up.
Of my own volition out, of position I took a change.
So you drool in the pizza line next time.
Remember, slower pizza’s more luscious.
Of spain never rushes the king!!!
Once, the king of spain (now I eat humble), was I.
Looking for off-handed ways to improve us (now I eat humble pie), was I.
Telling you I was the king of spain (now I eat humble pie), am I.
And jamming with moxy frvous, now I am! The king of spain, (once he was). Yes, hmmm.
The implosion of the ADQ, “Team Mario Dumont”
I am a political junkie, I admit it. Even though I live in Ontario, I do a lot of work in Quebec so I follow the political comings and goings quite a bit. I first learned of the ADQ in high school during the Quebec sovereignty referendum in ‘95 and treated them with a bit of distain. After all, the ADQ sided with the Bloq and PQ on the Yes side. After a number of years and the mellowing out of Mario Dumont (ADQ Leader), I started quietly rooting for them in elections. They were the third option for Quebecers, not the PQ and not the Liberals, they were the underdog, and I like underdogs. When they formed the official opposition in Quebec, I thought that was great, like cheering for the Ontario NDP in 1990; They didn’t have a chance but pulled off a ‘hail-mary’.
In hindsight, the election of Bob Rae’s NDP to Ontario was probably the worst thing to happen to the province, second worst being Dalton McNutty. Back to Quebec, once the ADQ became the official opposition (do they call it “Her Majesty’s Loyal”?) they fell apart, didn’t know what to do. There were so many rookies that the ADQ MNAs looked like a bunch of two-year olds organizing a daycare!!! After getting spanked the next election, Mario Dumont left the ADQ to do TV shows spoofing off his image.
The fall-out has been something else to watch. Two “nobodys” run for leader, the winner is chosen by a vote that people call out the possibility of election fraud. Then finger pointing between the ADQ and the Reformatories’ Quebec wing and one of their senators over fundraising money. Then the ADQ “cut ties” with the Reformatories saying that they wanted independence. Following that, the fingers get pointed back to the ADQ about missing money and now, their newly-minted leader quits with a napkin written resignation. And off they implode.
With “Stellar” people-power replacing Mario Dumont, it’s appears very fortunate that Quebec never got an ADQ government. Imagine what would have happened in Quebec City if they had their hands on the public purse! You’d think it was the second coming of the Montreal City Government!
Xmas lists
The kids have already submitted their xmas lists. This item was the first one selected by more than one of them. Should be interesting to see them fight over it.
Tis the season… already…
Tis the season to annoy the neighbours… Yes Xmas season is here, you can tell because the stuff was being hauled out into the stores about two weeks before Halloween. Every year there seems to be an unofficial match between myself and the next door neighbour who we don’t get a long with, as to who has cooler stuff on their lawn at xmas. This year is no different so I am looking for that next cool thing to go with the airblown santa who crashed into the xmas tree, the lights and so on…
First is this:
Airblown Penguins in a Hot Air Balloon
Next idea was this one:
Airblown animated helicopter.
Lastly is this:
2D Xmas Train
Also we need a new tree so I was thinking this:
New Xmas Tree
Pretty Cool - Steamtown USA - Scranton, PA
We’ve passed Scranton several times in our travels South and this time we stopped. This place puts museums like Delson, Quebec to shame. This is one case where pork-barrel US politics worked out to a clear benefit. Two active steam engines, lots of restored things, lots of things in the process of being restored. Cool exhibits. It only cost $22 to get in and get to ride on the steam train running back and forth in the yard. This is the first time I’ve been to one of the US National Parks Service parks and it will NOT be the last time. A very worthwhile trip. - And to all of those steam fans out there, I get it now…