Wicked Attitude

I’m getting really irritated with how Hollywood is remaking everything.  Have you really no original thoughts in your brain???  You have to take all of the classics from our childhood or other classics and wipe your untalented taint of doom all over it in order to make money with zero thought?  Here are some of the remakes that are coming up.

An American Werewolf In London
The Blob
The Birds
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Child’s Play
Clash Of The Titans
The Crazies
Das Experiment
Death Note
Drop Dead Fred
Excalibur
Fantastic 4 (Reboot)
Frankenstein (2011)
Ghost In The Shell
Harvey
Karate Kid
Let The Right One In
The Lone Ranger (2010)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Night Of The Living Dead
Oldboy
Piranha 3-D (2010)
The Stepfather (2009)
Robocop
Tomb Raider
The Thing
The Three Musketeers
The Warriors
The Wolfman

If you’d like to keep up with what movie from your childhood they’re going to crap all over next, you can go to Movie-Moron.com

I swear, people are unbelievable.  Got ready to pay our credit card and before I do that I always check over our statement online.  I saw a charge I didn’t recognize as KHBILL.COM so I called the hubbs and asked if he charged anything I didn’t know about.  He said no.  So I went to the website and the following came up:

Why was I billed?

You purchased a product, membership or subscription from a website that uses Jettis International’s services. You should have received an email receipt at time of purchase. If you do not have your receipt, use the Account Information Retrieval Form to view purchase details.

Why do I have multiple charges?

For your convenience, many subscription-based websites renew your membership until you cancel. For more information, visit the website to which you subscribed. If you’ve subscribed to multiple websites, the charges will be listed separately.

How can I stop the billing?

Fill out the Account Cancellation Form. Once you’ve cancelled, you will not be billed again after the date of your cancellation. To maximize the value of your membership, your access will remain active until the end of the current billing cycle.   Customer Service support is powered by Jettis International, a division of Jettis, Inc. Click here for Customer Support.

Guess what you need in order to verify your supposed subscription?  That’s right, your credit card number!  (That should be the first tip off!)  Oh they tell you you can provide your subscription number (which there is none because you didn’t subscribe to anything), your credit card number and email address and conveniently you only need to provide 2 of the 3 items listed in order to get any info!  How nice of them!  So you mean I can provide you with my email address AND my credit card number so you can charge to your hearts content and spam my email too!?  Lucky me! 

Unfortunately there are plenty of people out there that would give up this information to get the $39.95 or whatever amount they charged to get it removed.  Guess what?  They’ll also charge you repeatedly!  We haven’t gotten to that point but after some online research, many have.  I called the number for giggles and guess what they ask for in order to verify your account?  Credit card number AND expiration date!  Are there really people out there stupid enough to hand that info over to complete strangers in this day and age??  Oh and don’t forget if “you” paid by check there’s a little logo for that too!  I’m sure it asks for your checking account number and routing number but I wasn’t going to click it to find out.

I am blogging about this so that others who may get an email from the many company fronts this place uses can rest assured that this IS a scam, you MUST cancel your credit card and dispute the charges and under no circumstances do you email them!  I would also delete the cookies in your documents and settings folder and restart just to be safe.

Some of the names associated with this scam are : KHBILL.COM,  Jettis International,  Jettis Inc and Kelker Holdings, Ltd. and Nicosia Cyprus were listed at the bottom of the page.  Based on some research apparently EELimit.com is also associated and other various porn sites.

You know my husband worked at a place who had a dirty reputation before he started.  There was no insider trading or drugs being sold out of the back rooms (that we know of) but the reputation came straight from the bowels of the operation…the bathrooms.  The people perpetuating the reputation?  The cleaning people who had to clean them, who incidentally cleaned our building.  They would always say how they loved cleaning our bathrooms over the building behind us so we asked why.  With a shiver, one of the cleaning people revealed tales of nose goblins (aka- boogers) and feces (for those not down with the techical term…poop) on the walls, floor and even the ceiling once.  How does one even accomplish this?  Never mind, I don’t want to know.  We would all wretch at the mere mention of this and blamed it on the low class bill collectors that occupied that floor.  (I’m not knocking bill collectors as a whole because unfortunately I used to be one at a law firm but these people were truly like they were in some kind of release program.) 

Hubby has moved on and thought his booger and shit days were behind him.  Well apparently some dregs have gotten into his workplace because he commented yesterday there was a nugget of crap on the floor and he refused to use the bathroom on that floor.  He said how stepping in dog crap is one thing but stepping in human crap is just so unacceptable.  I told him it was because humans have a choice!

So to the mannerless douchebags of the world who get some kind of sick thrill by wiping their nasal and anal excrement on walls of bathrooms, KNOCK IT OFF!!!  Do you do that at your own house??  Not likely or your woman would divorce you!  Given how many germs are already floating in the bathroom anyway, I pray with everything in me that when you wipe your boogers on a wall that there is some horrific bacteria on the wall that you then insert back into your nose when mine for goodies again and you come down with flesh eating bacteria.  That would serve you right, to have your nose begin to erode and have to have it amputating.  The bacteria should go to people who actually deserve it, not the innocent people who typically get it.  Oh and learn to aim on a toilet.  I think that people who crap on the floor or on the toilets instead of in them should have DNA tests run on the turd to identify the person responsible and then they are made to clean the bathrooms for a month top to bottom after someone else has been named the designated crapper so they can see what its like to clean up someone else’s crap!!!  I cannot believe in this day and age we have full grown adults walking around with this problem!!!!  Grow up you disgusting pigs!

Did you know that you need to pay EXTRA to plug in a new appliance?  That’s right, just because you spend thousands of dollars on an appliance does not mean it comes with the cord you need in which to plug it in to operate it.  Mmm hmm.  You need to pay an extra $9.99 for the power cord.  When the hell did this become acceptable???  For every appliance maker out there nickel and diming the paying public by charging them for the luxury of operating their own appliance, shame on you and I hex your own appliances so you two may have to pay such a ridiculous fee for something that should be included!!

So I’m watching E! News Daily and there’s some style segment where they tell you how to get designer looks for less.  They show Vanessa Hudgens and Lauren Conrad in “high rise jeans/pants” and call them “chic” and “boho” (gag) but put them on the recently more curvy Jessica Simpson and they’re “Mom Jeans.”  WTF!?!  The double standard in this society is disgusting and they wonder why girls have body image issues.  They might as well have said “if you’re thin you have the right to wear what’s in style and if you’re over a size two, stick to a tarp because nothing will look good on you and we’ll make sure we tell you how bad you look.”  The media can truly suck it.

Gotta say I was a little surprised that the octuplet chose to implant 8 embryos in her uterus.  I have a family member who underwent fertility treatments and they implanted 3 and I told them they were going to have triplets and they laughed at me rattling off the statistics of how unlikely it was that would happen.  Well guess what, they had triplets and in the midst of one of many hard times they were encountering having 3 newborns, the mother screamed “I did NOT sign on for three!”  Well, yes you did.  When you choose to implant a certain number of embryos in your uterus, you need to come to terms with the fact you could end up with that many babies.

Now this octuplet mom’s motives seem very suspect to me.  I don’t like feeling that way about it but she’s a single mother in her mid-30’s who lives with her mom!  Where the hell does she propose stuffing these children in the 3 bedroom house she shares?  The neighbors and apparently the girl’s father aren’t thrilled according to one article I read.  My thought is she figures with shows out there like Jon and Kate Plus 8 (who I actually watch and like) , that freakish Dugger family and there’s some new family with an unGodly amount of kids out there with their own show that she could maybe become a part of that TV genre and make some money.  Again, this is just my opinion and I have no idea if that was her intent or not but given her current circumstances, I don’t really see any other logical explaination for doing that.  This woman is going to rely on the handouts of others and big companies to hear her story and donate products to her and I’ve got news sister, in this economy, good friggin’ luck!  While the medical community can’t really regulate this kind of thing, where is the ethical line where a doctor should be able to at least say “you know what, I refuse to implant that many given your situation and I’m not going to treat you.”  Just what we need, another gaggle of kids who didn’t ask to be born into what are going to have to be a strained and economically impossible situation.  Way to go.

Update:  The octuplet mom has hired an agent and is hoping to get money for interviews or be an on-air “child care expert.”  Read more about this developing story here.  Gee, I hate being right.  Oh yeah and if you want to be a child care expert, common sense would dictate that if you only wanted ONE more child that you would not implant 8 embryos.  Common sense would also dictate if you’re an unemployed student that you wouldn’t breed, which is essentially what this woman has become.  So sorry sistah, you have no credentials to be a child care “expert.”  Next.

It’s official, we’ve broken down as a society.  Assholes who deserve to burn in hell have become the majority.  The Seattle Times reports about how the man who was trampled by deal seeking zombies was actually taunted as he lay there dying.

The paramedic stops pumping. The man’s shirt has been pulled to his neck, revealing his belly. A woman in the crowd mutters, “Pregnant.”

The women laugh.

Another cracks a joke.

To the woman who muttered the word pregnant, to the other who cracked a joke and/or laughed and to anyone reading this who found that disgusting display amusing…there’s a special place in hell for you all and I hope you know what it is to be publicly humiliated before taking your place in hell.  I do hope it’s not as you lay dying though because even I wouldn’t wish that fate on pieces of crap like you.  Where is the decency in this world people?  What happened to the America that we saw after 9/11 and witnessed people treating each other with dignity and respect and reaching out to help one another.  What would people have done if the same man was laying in the rubble in lower Manhattan and heard of the same story?  People would be outraged.  But since this was just a greeter at Walmart, one whom I might add didn’t even want to be up there because he’d transferred to back door duty after “getting fed up with rude customers”, it doesn’t seem to matter. 

If you want to read more about this sad commentary on the gutless turds we call fellow shoppers, click here.

Since we have no Krispy Kreme’s within 8 miles of us, we usually save getting a dozen of their lovely chocolate iced cream filled for an every once in a while treat.  Sure we could get them at the local grocery stores but let’s face it, they’re nowhere near as good and almost always stale and not worth the money.  Today we made the journey and when we got home we were miffed to day the least.  Before, you would barely have enough room for the donuts to fit.  Now they practically look like appetizers.  They’re roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the size they used to be and yet they’re still charging $7 per dozen.  Do you think we don’t see they are visibly smaller?  Do you think we don’t realize we’re getting financially raped by yet one more friggin’ company who has decided to charge the same price for less product??  Yes because with the economy in the crapper we enjoy yet one more company being financially greedy and taking advantage of the little money we have left after paying our mortgage, higher utilities, higher taxes, etc.  So we’ll either stop going there and find another donut place who doesn’t relish in giving us less for the same price or make our already infrequent visits there even less frequent.  Corporate greed sucks.

As we were perusing the grocery store last night we came upon a rather peculiar name choice for a brand of dog food…Old Yeller.

Yeah, I know I’d want to feed my dog some food whose namesake developed rabies (albeit contracted by saving the family from a rabid wolf) and had to be shot by his young master.  Good times.

…how hard is your job?  I mean really.  If you’ve never been on the inside and seen what is hanging over almost every drive thru window in a fast food restaurant, it’s a plaque.  This plaque tells you that you should include things like napkins, straws for drinks, utensils for salads/soups, etc.  It seems like common sense to me but okay, whatever gets the job done.  Now I understand making people ask for ketchup or BBQ sauce or whatever because you’re cheap and want to save as many of your condiments as possible.  I’m not below asking for it, I don’t expect it to magically appear there.  However, when I ask for it, stick it in there.  Or don’t give me one or two packets for 2 meals.  I cannot count how many times we’ve grabbed something to go from not just fast food places but even sit down restaurants that give take out service and some component like the above mentioned things or crackers if you get chili are missing. 

I mean it’s bad enough you have to have a sign to remind you of the basic common sense items that should accompany an order but then to ignore it??  It’s like getting halfway home and realizing they forgot something.  (Which is why we always check)  I mean, I give you my order, you read it back, you have a receipt to follow…how do you forget to put something in the bag?  To combat the condiment issue, we always wait until they’re handing us the bag, don’t reach for it and ask for the condiments so they have to take the bag back and put it in there.  Sad you have to have a plan to get some stupid ketchup!

In our area, we’re surrounded by fast food and sit down restaurant with take out hell.  Here are my awards for the places surrounding us.

Most consistent drive thru screw ups:  McDonalds  (I bet that one’s a shocker)
Least drive thru screw ups:  Wendys
Sit down restaurant take out that has dropped the ball:  Max and Erma’s.  (What, you’re too good to give ANY condiments, napkins AND utensils now??)

So how about you?  What drive thru’s get the best/worst picks in your area?