Category Archives: dead to me

Soccer officiating a joke

June 27, 2010 – 9:10 am

Did you see the disallowed England goal against Germany? Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Soccer is dead to me. … After New Zealand wins this World Cup.

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the beautiful game SUCKS

June 21, 2010 – 5:06 am

Like most North Americans, soccer is not my game. I like playing it, but watching a nil-nil draw between Elbonia and Molvanîa is only slightly preferable to rotting in a coffin. Like most North Americans, I appreciate skillful ball handling and passing. Soccer highlights, I enjoy. But face it, watching an interminable game of soccer [...]

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big, fat idiot – Rush Limbaugh on Haiti

January 16, 2010 – 5:12 pm

Rush Limbaugh on Haiti relief donations: ‘We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax’ Of all the over-paid right wing radio talk show nobs, I like Rush the best. He’s got some sort of folksy appeal. Once in a while he talks some common sense. That said, he’s a bald-faced liar, at [...]

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dead tree books are dead to me

December 29, 2008 – 12:03 am

The newspaper industry is shrinking. Book publishers are hurting badly. Some feel the next big thing is eBooks. (The Kindle is sold out until February.) But I don’t want a Kindle. It’s not much better than the book I have sitting unread on my bedside table. I don’t want to “read”. I like audible books. [...]

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Canon is dead to me

November 14, 2007 – 12:03 am

I got irked 25yrs ago after problems with a JVC warranty. Customer service back then was almost always terrible. I never bought anything from JVC again. And never will. Now Canon is dead to me too. Despite consistently good reviews on-line, my Canon Elura series camcorder was a dud. Most of the trouble involved the [...]

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advertising is dead to me

June 20, 2007 – 12:04 am

Do you hate advertising as much as I do? Unless you make an effort to avoid them, you’ll see 5000 ads / day. … billboards, sandwich boards, TV commercials, radio spots, posters, newspaper inserts, storefront promos, magazine ads, web banners, spam emails, product placements, infomercials, sponsorship logos, advertorials, and so on … adbusters Why are [...]

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John Dvorak is dead to me

May 5, 2007 – 12:26 am

I’ve known for a long time now that tech reporter John Dvorak is a sloppy, irresponsible yellow journalist. Time to cut him loose. Let him sink to the bottom of the dead pool. I’ve cancelled my RSS subscription to his blog and videocast. And will plug my ears when he happens to appear on other [...]

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Tour de France dead to me

January 27, 2007 – 12:05 am

I want to thank Bjarne Riis. Good on you for coming clean. What shred of credibility remained about elite pro cycling has disappeared as 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis of Denmark on Friday became the first Tour winner to admit he used banned performance-enhancing drugs. … Riis said in a news conference Friday [...]

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magazines are dead to me

June 25, 2006 – 1:55 am

In the late ’90s I scheduled one evening a week to browse magazines at the library. A few years later I stopped as magazine content seemed old — I had seen some of the stories on the internet. Google News, in particular, ruined magazines for me. In 2006 I rely much less on Google News [...]

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loyalty programs are dead to me

April 2, 2006 – 8:30 am

In general, I am loyal to merchants who have no loyalty program. I shop for groceries only at The Great Canadian Superstore in my town where I am not penalized for NOT having a loyalty card. Safeway? Forget it! “Air Miles?” I’ve almost lost interest in airline frequent flyer programs as points become harder to [...]

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