Do a search for "visa" + "unsigned and a whole bunch of hits come up. They give you information from Visa themselves and banks. Merchants do not, and in fact should not, accept an unsigned credit card. Visa themselves in an info packet tell you to ask for ID, otherwise, do not accept an unsigned credit card. IT IS NOT VALID. A merchant doesn't fucking have to accept it.

Look at the back of your MasterCard. Damn near every MasterCard I've ever held in my hand says that the card isn't valid unless it's signed.

Technically, your card isn't valid, either, if you put "SEE ID" on it or some variation thereof.

SO FUCK YOU. Fuck you and the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. No, not all establishments follow these rules and try to protect not only themselves, but their customers.

And, y'know, if a card is signed, legibly, and the gender of the person matches the gender on the card, there's not much that can really be done. Credit cards are kind of a lose-lose situation for everyone involved and all you can do is just, y'know, hope you don't get your card stolen ever.

Just as someone can find your card in the parking lot or out of your purse, and study your signature and forge it, they can also take your unsigned card, sign it however they feel comfortable, and go on a shopping spree. There's no easy answer. Sign the card and then put "SEE ID"? I don't know. I don't fucking know.

But I'm just doing my fucking job. And I hate you. I hate you if you don't sign your goddamn card and then freak out and hunt me down in the fucking store to berate me like I'm a six year old idiot. I understand that I'm a cashier and you're a doctor so you're more important than me. I understand that -- I'm an uneducated worthless human being, and you're a doctor. I GET IT. But, bitch, please. Just -- just fuck you.

How tacky.

Fucking YouTube. *shakes fist*

ETA: Oh MAN. And apparently it was one of the most discussed videos on YouTube, like, today or yesterday or whatever. I wish I knew how to speak Spanish. Like, how to say, WOW THIS VID WAS REALLY GOOD WHEN I ORIGINALLY MADE IT A FEW YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING BASTARDS. PISS OFF AND DIE IN A FIRE. KTHX.

I'm going to make it so that every store is equipped with tech that makes the mobile phone inoperable at cash registers.

In the great circle of life, in the chain that binds all living creatures on this planet, flora and fauna alike, what the fuck purpose do fucking mosquitoes fucking serve?

Fucking fuckers.

I wish I had access to the chat log, but

rahalia_cat and I were discussing 'skeeters the other day, about how they're indesctructable, about how awful that "neeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound they make is. How they're like roaches -- they'd be the last creatures on earth.

I suggested the mosquito vs cockroach deathmatch. Which, when the rubble clears and the dust settles, would likely be followed by that infernal sound: "neeeeeeeeeeeeeeee".

Fucking fuckers.

Yeah. This calls for the Pissed Off Baby Emperor Penguin of Doom Icon.

Sometimes it's hard.

(re: claim that greater acceptance for gays will lead to greater acceptance for child-molesters)
a: That's like saying, "Now that being gay is OK, will poking people in the eye with sharp sticks be legalized as well?"
b: That straw man ~~pony~~ won't run. Persons who who hold that view overestimate the connection, but statistically the connection is there.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. Sure. But isn't the vast majority of child molestation still committed by heterosexual men against girls? Also, heterosexual women have molested kids.

So basically...

Statistically, there's a connection between grown-ups molesting children.

OH CRAP. THE OVER-EIGHTEENS AND THE UNDER-EIGHTEENS HAD BEST BE SEGREGATED FOREVER AND EVER.

*quietly seethes*

*walks away*

Holy crap, it's the night of the telemarketers! And it's not all the same one(s). Jesus Christ.

My Phone: *rings*
Me: *hits talk button* Hello?
My Phone: ...
Me: *hangs up*

Ten minutes later:

My Phone: *rings*
Me: *hits talk button* Hello?
My Phone: ...
Me: *sigh* *hangs up*

Fifteen minutes later:

My Phone: *rings*
Me: *gets up slowly* *hits talk button* Hello?
My Phone: ...
Me: *closes eyes, sighs* *hangs up*

Ten minutes later:

My Phone: *rings*
Me: Jesus. *gets up very slowly*
My Phone: *rings*
Me: *hits talk button* ... Hello?
My Phone: ...
Me: For the love of...

Five minutes later:

My Phone: *rings*
Me: *tosses phone out window*

***

Okay, so that last scenario didn't actually happen, but Jesus. If this was all coming from the same number, I'd actually call them and chew them out. As it's not...

And, yeah. This has been happening for the last several hours. Jesus!

Since my last post, I have discovered that the DVD player isn't as, well, powerful.

Because the last player was so good, I bought a huge chunk of my DVDs used. Or if they arrived already a tiny bit damaged (scratched), I'd give 'em a go anyway, and 99.9% of the time, the player didn't even recognise any of the damage -- played the DVDs perfectly.

This one? Not so much. Pixelises and skips over the damage.

Honestly -- any advice on how to fight this would make me really, really happy.

Note to self:

When doubling a recipe, make sure you double the liquid content, too. Or things just don't work.

*facepalm*

Of course, I didn't realise what I'd done until after I put it in the oven, and there I was, wondering why things were so weird...

Le sigh. All right, off to the grocery store to brave the madness.

Merry Christmas Eve, everybody!

Current Mood: annoyed

I. Hate. My. Neighbours.

It's Thursday night! It's Thursday bloody night and they've been out there, those goddamned KIDS, making a bloody ruckus for over an hour now. I know it's "only" ten, but I'm fucking exhausted and the air conditioning is not on; if I close my window, I'll swelter to death in my room. I hate them. I hate them sooooo much. *flails*

Current Mood: angry

Make a lot of noise, play loud music, do a lot of shouting first thing in the morning?

Meet your worst annoyance. I will call the goddamned police on your fucking asses. It's 1:30 in the fucking morning. I don't care if it's Sunday. I really do not fucking care. I work for a fucking living, and I only get one day off and for the love of fucking god, I wanted a decent night of uninterrupted fucking sleep!

Fuckers. I hate you all.

No love,

ashinae

Wolfsbane potion. Remus takes it. I know that at the time of the full moon, he'll turn into a wolf, then curl up and go to sleep. Now, what I'm pondering is, does he curl up and go to sleep because:

(a) the potion essentially knocks him unconscious (it's like Contac C for werewolves!)
or
(b) when you're a werewolf with no desire to hunt human prey, it's better than spending all night scratching your ears and licking your bum.

I can't remember having the explanation for this in-text, but then, I'm a pretty typical dumb blonde and could have possibly missed it. Hee! Ahem, yes. Or has it been said anywhere, or is there one that makes more sense, or... what?

It's sad when you're reading a genuinely funny essay about the frustrations of fandom and fanfiction and poor characterisation and bad sex scenes when BAM! Everything is destroyed once again by yet another writer saying something about "badfic" writers turning grown men into weepy thirteen-year-old girls. GAH. Dude, do NOT make me write another essay about the inherent sexism in that.

Weepy != girly

Got that?

Weepy = baby. Weepy = immature.

How could saying otherwise, that someone who cannot control their emotional reactions must be a girl -- how can that possibly be anything but a sexist remark? The one person I have known in my life who cried over every little thing that went wrong was a very emotionally fragile teenage boy, whereas my two best girl friends only ever cry when they are under extreme stress because they've always had good, mature, adult coping skills. The people who have absolutely no control over their reaction to cry over every upset, who have such poor emotional coping abilities, are infants. Children. People who are very, very immature.

It is not. a. female. thing. All right? Stop giving in to society's gender expectations by saying it is. Just stop.

<bitchy!Ash>

Yes, I know I'm a snob. But there is absolutely NO reason to post a story anywhere without capitalising it. It looks sloppy and it is difficult to read. It's hard enough reading journal entries or community/BBS board/message group posts that have no capitalisation. You're too lazy to do it in more "personal" things, that's great. You think it makes you different or unique -- yes, dear, just like everybody else. But for the love of the English language... please, throw a capital letter at the beginning of a name and the beginning of a sentence. Please.

</bitchy!Ash>

Teenies. Sigh. Note that my work gets called STUPID.

Oh, I SO had to break out this new icon for this.

So I wait an extra three weeks for my season 2 Due South DVD to arrive, so that I can buy it with some of the $250 in credit I have on my account at work, instead of shelling out an additional $75.99+tax for it over at Future Shop. I got very excited when I got the phone call last night that it had finally arrived. Picked it up after school today.

Same fucked-up packaging as the previous set, but no surprise there as Alliance Atlantis don't know what they fuck they're doing. One of the discs had a nice big fingerprint on it. I sighed, grabbed my cleaning solution, cleaned it off. No problems. I did not buy a DVD player for $150 so therefore, it can handle damn near anything on a disc, as well a player should*.

I popped in disc one, and was immediately pleasantly surprised that they cleaned up the picture and sound quality considerably from the season 1 release. I mean, the Mountie's uniform is really RED. REALLY REALLY RED.

Then I realised, "You know? I want to watch 'The Edge'!" So I did a bit of an episode inventory in my head, realised that that particular ep should be on disc two, and popped disc one out of my player. Looked down at the DVD case, knew already that the disc with the picture of Fraser on it was labelled as disc three, and popped in what I assumed would be disc two.

Except that it was also disc one.

Sigh.

For the amount of money that Alliance Atlantis is expecting Canadians to shell out for their discs ($40 SRP for Two Towers, here. God, I wish Warner Bros would take New Line distribution back from Alliance Atlantis [owned by Universal in Canada]), one would THINK they could at least pretend to do a half-assed job with their DVD releases. But nooooooo they're a bunch of fucktards.

Am quite definitely writing to them this time around. So, yes, my least favourite season is coming out next. But if Paul Gross is their lovely poster boy, one would think that perhaps they would want it known that they should clean up their act for his lame-assed effort at writing/directing/producing a television show. And, really, "I Coulda Been a Defendant" IS one of the best episodes that the show did (not surprising, as PG didn't write it) -- and, I mean, really. Brent fucking Carver was in it. He could make the phone book seem like Shakespeare.

And now, I must eat. Spaghetti is good for calming my irritations.

*As a friendly aside to my readership, if you rent a lot of DVDs or buy a lot used, and your player can't handle some scratches (the kind where you have to turn the disc every which way to see all the scratches) you bought a crap-ass player. It's not the DVD's fault -- those things are designed to play through a whole lot of wear and tear. It's just that you, my dear friend, were ripped off. You get what you pay for. You've got to shell out some decent money on a player. And for the love of god, buy a Toshiba or a Panasonic, and do not cry if you're using an XBOX or a PS2 as a DVD player and it doesn't work half the time.

Current Mood: irritated

I want last-dance.com back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*snarl* *rage* *pout* *whine*

Who the fuck do I have to sleep with to get my website up and running again? Who the fuck do I have to blow to have my host RESPOND TO MY BLOODY E-MAIL? They haven't responded to an e-mail I sent last month!! This is really bad bloody customer service.

... I don't feel better about this. I think I'm going to have a nap.

Current Mood: irate
Current Music: my own blood boiling

Last-dance.com is down.

Again.

AAAGH!!

Current Mood: angry
Current Music: grrr!!

-- Do not write to me to tell me that my Boromir vids (and stories, for that matter) would be better with Legolas. There is a reason they have Boromir in them, featured so strongly: they are about Boromir.

-- Not everybody thinks that Legolas is the star of Lord of the Rings. I'm open-minded enough to understand that there are people out there who do not see Boromir for the multifaceted (sexyashell) character that he is. I can accept this. So please respect my decision for picking Boromir as my favourite character.

-- I believe in the book. There are a lot of times I like the Fellowship movie better, actually, most times, but I believe in the book, too, particularly for Two Towers. Therefore, I believe in Legolas/Gimli. Call me heretical if you will, but I'm more fond of the Professor's vision of these characters than I am of Peter Jackson's. Legolas had a personality and Gimli was a lot less clownish.

-- The world does not revolve around the frelling Elf.

-- There is a reason I write and vid about Boromir. I like him. A lot. I like Sean Bean. A lot. I am not wasting my time and talent. I am doing stuff I love. I do not find perfect!pretty!movie!Legolas to be a particularly interesting character. There isn't much going on there. Boromir has a larger role in Fellowship and, ultimately, a far more interesting character arc.

-- Please. If you want the Legolas stuff so badly (minus the Gimli, because [sarcasm] god forbid people could actually like the Dwarf [/sarcasm]), go find the Legolas/Elf-centric Yahoo groups. Go look up the A/L slash that's out there, believe me, there's a lot of it. Write it yourself. Ask vidders how they make vids, and make your own.

My name is Ashinae, and I'm a Boromiraholic, and no amount of pretty Elf boy is gonna change that.

Good night.

Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: Sarah Fimm - Be Like Water

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